Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage : Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England /

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Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation-a reformed drama-and a producer of Protestant habits of thought-a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diehl, Huston (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
1500-1699
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
Protestantism and literature > History > 16th century.
Protestantism and literature > History > 17th century.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Renaissance > England.
Aesthetics, British.
Théâtre anglais > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Protestantisme et littérature > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Protestantisme et littérature > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Théâtre anglais > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Tragédie anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Renaissance > Angleterre.
Esthétique britannique.
DRAMA > Medieval.
English drama.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama (Tragedy)
Protestantism and literature.
Renaissance.
Theater.
England.
the aftermath of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, atomic bombs, disaster recovery, nuclear attacks, atomic bomb survivors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation-a reformed drama-and a producer of Protestant habits of thought-a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantism in England, rehearsed the religious crises that disrupted, divided, energized, and in many respects revolutionized English society. Drawing on the insights of symbolic anthropologists, Diehl explores the relationship between the suppression of late medieval religious cultures, with their rituals, symbols, plays, processions, and devotional practices, and the emergence of a popular theater under the Protestant monarchs Elizabeth and James. Questioning long-held assumptions that the reformed religion was inherently antitheatrical, she shows how the reformers invented new forms of theater, even as they condemned a Roman Catholic theatricality they associated with magic, sensuality, and duplicity. Using as her central texts the tragedies of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, Diehl maintains that plays of the period reflexively explore their own power to dazzle, seduce, and deceive. Employing a reformed rhetoric that is both powerful and profoundly disturbing, they disrupt their own stunning spectacles. Out of this creative tension between theatricality and antitheatricality emerges a distinctly Protestant aesthetic.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages) : 16 halftones
ISBN:9781501734083
1501734083

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