Early modern drama and the Bible : contexts and readings, 1570-1625 / edited by Adrian Streete.

Other author Streete, Adrian.
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Descriptionxi, 267 pages ; 23 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesEarly modern literature in history
Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) ^A535427
Contents Introduction : situating the Bible in early modern drama / Adrian Streete -- Enter the book : reading the Bible on the early modern stage / Michael Davies -- Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar : biblical presences in Shakespeare's tragicomedies / Helen Wilcox -- 'Fatal visions' : the image as actor in early modern tragedy / Patricia Canning -- Political theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes / Dermot Cavanagh -- The ethics of pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Paul Cefalu -- Punishing perjury in Love's labour's lost / Judith Hudson -- 'They repented at the preachyng of Ionas : and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here' : a looking glass for London and England, Hosea and the destruction of Jerusalem / Beatrice Groves -- Marital infidelity and Christian self-sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a man may choose a good wife from a bad / Emer McManus -- Reading the white devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster / Emma Rhatigan -- Situating political and biblical authority in Massinger and Field's The fatal dowry / Adrian Streete -- Afterword / Hannibal Hamlin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011047529
ISBN9780230301092 (hardback)
ISBN0230301096 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks PR649.B5 E27 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold