History, religion, and violence : cultural contexts for medieval and renaissance English drama /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, Vt. :
Ashgate Variorum,
c2002
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| Series: | Variorum collected studies series ;
CS744 |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Religion and Historical Crosscurrents in Renaissance Drama. Marlowe, the Papacy, and Doctor Faustus 3
- The History of King Lear and the Problem of Belief 24
- The Anxiety of Power and Shakespeare's Macbeth 42
- Antony and Cleopatra: Circe, Venus, and the Whore of Babylon 64
- Part II: Sacred Violence and the Mysteries. Cain in the Mysteries: The Iconography of Violence 97
- The Sacrifice of Isaac in Medieval English Drama 124
- Nudity, the Body, and Early English Drama 149
- Sacred Blood and the Late Medieval Stage 180
- Part III: Cultural Contexts for Early Drama. Carnival, Lent, and Early English Drama 207
- The Medieval Stage and the Antitheatrical Prejudice 226
- Idol and Image in Late Medieval Art and Drama 240
- Saints in Play: English Theater and Saints' Lives 251
- Signs of Doomsday in Drama and Art 267