Writing the Reformation: Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play

ISBN-13: 9781138731288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Marsha Robinson

Opis

This title was first published in 2002. This study presents the historical stage as a site of a continuing Reformation debate over the nature of political authority, the validity of conscience and the challenge to social and gender hierarchies implicit in Protestant doctrine.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations  Acknowledgements  List of Abbreviations  Introduction  1. The ‘Marvellous Working’ of the Lord: Foxean History on Stage 2. Trial and Redemption: Authority on the Tragicomic Stage of History 3. ‘Only My Conscience’: Staging the Record of Conscience 4. Confounding the Mighty with the Weak: Staging a Popular Reformation  5. ‘Even Unto Many Godly Women’: Staging a Female Reformation  6. Foxean ‘Re-visions’ on the Jacobean Stage  Bibliography  Index

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