Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play - Couverture rigide

Robinson, Marsha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754606147 ISBN 13 : 9780754606147

Editeur : Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002

Synopsis

Thiw work invests the post-Shakespearean history plays of the Jacobean era - including among others Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (1613), Dekker's "The Whore of Babylon" (1606), and Heywood's "If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody" (1604-5)-with new significance by recognizing the role they played in popularizing and re-appropriating Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", one of the most formative and culturally significant Reformation texts. This study presents the historical stage as a site of a continuing Reformation debate over the nature of political authority, the validity of conscience and the challenge to social and gender hierarchies implicit in Protestant doctrine. Relating each play to contemporary political events, the book demonstrates the role of the Jacobean stage in promoting reformation and informing with providential meaning the events unfolding outside the theatre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754606147
• ISBN 13: 9780754606147
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible