Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama

ISBN-13: 9781108701822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 229 str.

STELLING LIEKE

Opis

The first cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage. Discussing over forty dramatic pieces, the book introduces little known conversion plays and offers fresh readings of canonical drama, including Shakespeare's Othello, to reveal telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.

Recenzje

'Lieke Stelling's Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama offers a welcome addition to the active field of early modern conversion studies by focusing on plays that dramatize religious conversion on the early modern English stage.' Holly Crawford Pickett, Reformation

Spis treści

Part I. Spiritual Conversion: 1. 'Be by me converted': medieval and reformation drama; 2. 'The whole summe of Christianitie': spiritual conversion in protestant sermons; 3. ''Twas I but 'tis not I': dramatic transformations of spiritual conversion; Part II. Interfaith Conversion: 4. 'More stable and perfect faith': religious diversification and the paradox of interfaith conversion; 5. 'False runagates' and 'superlunatical hypocrites': securing religious identity on the stage; 6. 'Most beautiful pagan; most sweet Jew': preserving Christianity in authentic conversions; 7. 'For Christian shame': Othello's assimilation into Venice.