Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 213 pp. Contents; 1. Introduction: Bucer's Round Church and Shakespeare's "Wooden O"-The Circulation of the Reformation Sermon and the Renaissance Play -- Part I: Polemics and Irenics at Paul's Cross -- 2. The Pulpit Performance and the Two-Edged Sword -- 3. "Holy Cozenage" and the Renaissance Cult of the Ear -- Part II: Comic Edification and Inclusion -- 4. Satire and Social Structure -- 5. "Strange Tempests": The Rhetoric of Judgment in Field and Shakespeare -- Part III: Tragedy: Watershed and Confluence -- 6. The Mist and the Wilderness: Protestant Paradox in Gifford and Webster -- 7. Donne in on Shakespeare's Stage: The Theology and Theatrics of Renaissance Dying -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Geschichte 1500-1700. Christianity and literature England History 16th century. English drama 17th century History and criticism. Preaching England History 16th century. 3 Kg.

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Title: The Play of Paradox : Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England / Bryan Crockett
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0812233166
ISBN 13: 9780812233162
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Weight: 3 kilograms

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Bryan Crockett is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola College in Maryland.

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