Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England - Hardcover

Streete, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521760178 ISBN 13: 9780521760171

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama. Examining the complex and painful shift from late medieval religious culture to a society dominated by the ideas of the Reformers, Adrian Streete presents a fresh understanding of Reformed theology and the representation of early modern subjectivity. Through close analysis of major thinkers such as Augustine, William of Ockham, Erasmus, Luther and Calvin, the book argues for the profoundly Christological focus of Reformed theology and explores how this manifests itself in early modern drama. Moving beyond questions of authorial 'belief', Streete assesses Elizabethan and Jacobean drama's engagement with the challenges of the Reformation.

About this title

Book Description:

Drawing on a range of important thinkers and literary writers from the early modern period, this book argues for a new critical and historical understanding of the connections between early modern theology and drama. Streete demonstrates how widely and pervasively the ideas of Reformed theology impacted in early modern England.

About the Author:

Adrian Streete is Lecturer in English at The Queen's University of Belfast.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521760178
• ISBN 13: 9780521760171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310