The Bible and Modern British Drama: From 1930 to the Present Day

ISBN-13: 9781032177045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 208 str.

Mary F. Brewer

Opis

The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present-Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments  Introduction  1. James Bridie’s Apocryphal Plays  2. Laurence Housman’s Biblical Drama  3. Christopher Fry’s Old Testament Drama and Replacement Theology  4. From Dogma to Doubt: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King and Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar  5. The Origins of Christianity Reassessed  6. Bible, Church, Nation and Theatre  Afterword  Works Cited  Index

O autorze

Mary F. Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, where she teaches English and American literature and drama.