Apocalypse And Anti Catholicism In Seventeenth Century English Drama

Author : Adrian Streete
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416144
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama written by Adrian Streete and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streete studies the political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama, focusing on the plays of Marston, Middleton, Massinger, and Dryden. Drawing on recent work in religious and political history, he rethinks how religion is debated in the early modern theatre.

Author : Victoria Brownlee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192540572
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625 written by Victoria Brownlee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection between these readings and various forms of writing and argues that literary writings bear the hallmarks of the period's dominant exegetical practices, and do interpretative work. Tracing the impact of biblical reading across a range of genres and writers, the discussion demonstrates that literary reimaginings of, and allusions to, the Bible were common, varied, and ideologically evocative. The book explores how a series of popularly interpreted biblical narratives were recapitulated in the work of a diverse selection of writers, some of whom remain relatively unknown. In early modern England, the figures of Solomon, Job, and Christ's mother, Mary, and the books of Song of Songs and Revelation, are enmeshed in different ways with contemporary concerns, and their usage illustrates how the Bible's narratives could be turned to a fascinating array of debates. In showing the multifarious contexts in which biblical narratives were deployed, this book argues that Protestant interpretative practices contribute to, and problematize, literary constructions of a range of theological, political, and social debates.

Author : Suzanne Gossett
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838721513
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hierarchomachia written by Suzanne Gossett and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hierarchomachia is a seventeenth-century English play, long thought to have been lost, that satirizes many prominent figures in the English Catholic community. This edition contains a facsimile of the manuscript, a fully edited text, and textual and historical notes.

Author : Darrell Jodock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521770712
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholicism Contending with Modernity written by Darrell Jodock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2000 book is a case study in the ongoing struggle of Christianity to define its relationship to modernity, examining representative Roman Catholic Modernists and anti-Modernists. It sketches the nineteenth-century background of the Modernist crisis, identifying the problems that the church was facing at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Leticia Alvarez-Recio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845199548
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting the Antichrist written by Leticia Alvarez-Recio and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting the Antichrist analyzes the discourse against Catholicism within England, from the breach from Rome in 1534 until the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Cultural representations of Catholicism were decisive in creating and molding the perceptions that many Englishmen had of the new Anglican Church. Anti-Catholic propaganda elaborated a stereotype of the Catholic that converged with other negative cultural types common in the period. These stereotypes allowed anti-Catholics to send a clear message to their Protestant countrymen: that Catholicism was a devilish, corrupt power that could undermine their Church and State. Special attention is paid to political and doctrinal plays and pamphlets, given their appeal to different social groups and their role in creating a new public opinion.

Author : Jay Zysk
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268102325
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow and Substance written by Jay Zysk and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts. Regardless of one’s specific religious identity, to speak of the Eucharist during that time was to speak of dynamic interactions between body and sign. In crossing periodic boundaries and revising familiar historical narratives, Shadow and Substance challenges the idea that the Protestant Reformation brings about a decisive shift from the flesh to the word, the theological to the poetic, and the sacred to the secular. The book also adds to studies of English drama and Reformation history by providing an account of how Eucharistic discourse informs understandings of semiotic representation in broader cultural domains. This bold study offers fresh, imaginative readings of theology, sermons, devotional books, and dramatic texts from a range of historical, literary, and religious perspectives. Each of the book’s chapters creates a dialogue between different strands of Eucharistic theology and different varieties of English drama. Spanning England’s long reformation, these plays—some religious in subject matter, others far more secular—reimagine semiotic struggles that stem from the controversies over Christ’s body at a time when these very concepts were undergoing significant rethinking in both religious and literary contexts. Shadow and Substance will have a wide appeal, especially to those interested in medieval and early modern drama and performance, literary theory, Reformation history, and literature and religion.

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Apocalypse written by Peter Milward and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his recent study, The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays, Fr. Peter Milward examines more closely the themes of doomsday and judgement in the great dramas. As recent research establishes ever more securely Shakespeare's own Catholic background, we are invited to consider the symbolism of the plays from the perspective of the Elizabethan and Jacobean recusant community of which the poet was a member. Fr. Milward draws attention to the profound feeling manifest in the treatment of the desolation of England following the destruction of her Catholic culture, and the persecution of the Church by the new Establishment -- long missed in critical studies. At the end of the second Christian millennium, when the popular mind has been preoccupied with strange predictions of doom, we follow Shakespeare's reflections on the real judgement then being visited upon an apostate nation, and see how England's real and only hope lies in a return to her first allegiance to a greater Royal supremacy than that of the Tudors, under a loftier Queen -- not Elizabeth, but Mary who reigns in Heaven.

Author : Alvin Snider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England written by Alvin Snider and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snider concentrates on three texts: Bacon's Novum Organum, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Butler's Hudibras. He treats the concept of a definitive origin not just as a literary or historical tope but as a complex system of representation that informs the poetry, philosophy, and other writings of the period.

Author : Michael B. Gross
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113835
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against Catholicism written by Michael B. Gross and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative and important study of the relationship between Catholicism and liberalism, the two most significant and irreconcilable movements in nineteenth-century Germany

Author : Margarita Stocker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Marvell written by Margarita Stocker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: