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The Play of Paradox : Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England /

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Crockett, Bryan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Bucer's Round Church and Shakespeare's "Wooden O"-The Circulation of the Reformation Sermon and the Renaissance Play
  • Part I: Polemics and Irenics at Paul's Cross
  • 2. The Pulpit Performance and the Two-Edged Sword
  • 3. "Holy Cozenage" and the Renaissance Cult of the Ear
  • Part II: Comic Edification and Inclusion
  • 4. Satire and Social Structure
  • 5. "Strange Tempests": The Rhetoric of Judgment in Field and Shakespeare
  • Part III: Tragedy: Watershed and Confluence
  • 6. The Mist and the Wilderness: Protestant Paradox in Gifford and Webster
  • 7. Donne in on Shakespeare's Stage: The Theology and Theatrics of Renaissance Dying
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index