Moral Play and Counterpublic: Transformations in Moral Drama, 1465-1599

ISBN-13: 9780367865801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Ineke Murakami

Opis

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and pol

Spis treści

Introduction: "Public, Scurrilous, and Profane": Moral Drama 1465-1599. Chapter 1: Mankind: Publicizing the New Guise  Chapter 2: William Wager: Monstrous Ambition and the Public Weal  Chapter 3: History as Allegory: Chronicle Plays and the Bid for Public Office  Chapter 4: Rhetorical Revolt: Marlowe’s Theater of the Public Enemy  Chapter 5: Public Judgment and the Virtue of Vice in Jonson’s Sin City  Chapter 6: Epilogue: Death Comes to Moral Drama

 

O autorze

Ineke Murakami is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY, Albany.