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

Robinson, Marsha

 
9780815376194: Writing the Reformation: Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0815376197 ISBN 13 : 9780815376194
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2002. This 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.

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Marsha Robinson

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0815376197
ISBN 13 
9780815376194
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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