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Ashgate
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304

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Subjects

History, Literature and history, English drama, History and criticism, Religion and literature, Renaissance, Violence in literature, English drama, history and criticism, to 1500, English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600, Renaissance, england

Places

England

Times

To 1500, 16th century, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
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History, religion, and violence: cultural contexts for medieval and renaissance English drama
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Aldershot, Hampshire, Burlington, Vt
Series
Variorum collected studies series ;, 744, Collected studies ;, 744.

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Dewey Decimal Class
822/.209382
Library of Congress
PR641 .D38 2002, PR641.D38 2002

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Pagination
xi, 304 p. :
Number of pages
304

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OL3558032M
ISBN 10
0860788822
LCCN
2002018201
OCLC/WorldCat
48857849
Goodreads
4898560

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