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Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108477038
A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.
Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108757243
Few subjects of the English stage have proved more alluring and enduring than religious conversion. The emergence of the Elizabethan theatre marked a profound shift in the way in which conversion was presented. If medieval drama had encouraged conversion without reservation, early Elizabethan plays started to question it. Considering over forty canonical and lesser known works, this study argues that more so than any other medium, early modern drama engaged with the question of the possibility of undergoing a radical transformation in faith and presented the period's understanding of it as fundamentally unsettled. Offering the first cross-religious exploration of conversion in early modern English drama, and presenting a new reading of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, Lieke Stelling reveals telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.
Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317068114
Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.
Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317068106
Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion and performance were inextricably linked in early modern England. Its readings extend beyond the interpretation of straightforward religious allusions and suggest new avenues for theorizing the dynamic relationship between religious representations and dramatic ones. By addressing the particular ways in which commercial drama adapted the sensory aspects of religious experience to its own symbolic systems, the volume enacts a methodological shift towards a more nuanced semiotics of theatrical performance. Covering plays by a wide range of dramatists, including Shakespeare, individual essays explore the material conditions of performance, the intricate resonances between dramatic performance and religious ceremonies, and the multiple valences of religious references in early modern plays. Additionally, Religion and Drama in Early Modern England reveals the theater's broad interpretation of post-Reformation Christian practice, as well as its engagement with the religions of Islam, Judaism and paganism.
Author : Abigail Shinn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319965778
This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers’ experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre’s relative stabilization in the 1650s. A cross confessional study analyzing work by both Protestant and Catholic writers, this book explores conversion’s relationship with reading; the links between conversion, eloquence, translation and trope; the conflation of spiritual movement with literal travel; and the use of the body as a site for spiritual knowledge and proof.
Author : Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0748643206
This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse than death and as a sexual seduction. Degenhardt examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race, and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture. In addition, she shows how England's encounter with Islam reanimated post-Reformation debates about the embodiment of Christian faith. As Degenhardt compellingly demonstrates, the erotics of conversion added fuel to the fires of controversies over Pauline universalism, Christian martyrdom, the efficacy of relics and rituals, and even the Knights of Malta.
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004218564
Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe’s most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in which spiritual transformations and exchanges of religious identities were given meaning.
Author : Holly Crawford Pickett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1512825654
In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical figures such as William Alabaster, Kenelm Digby, William Chillingworth, and Marc Antonio De Dominis, along with fictional ones, who changed their religious affiliations between Catholicism and Protestantism multiple times. Pickett argues that serial converts both reveal and helped revise early modern understandings of the self. Through investigation of the techniques that serial converts used to stage and justify their conversions, Pickett demonstrates the performative nature of the act of conversion itself, offering a counternarrative to the paradigm of sincere, private conversion that was on the rise in the tumultuous years following the Reformation. Drawing from archival investigation into the lives and works of serial converts and performance studies theory, this book shows how the genres and conventions associated with conversion shaped not only forms of communication but also the very experience of conversion. By juxtaposing plays about serial conversion—by Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare—with spiritual autobiographies, Pickett highlights the shared task of convert and playwright: performing conversion for an audience. Serial converts served as uncomfortable reminders to their contemporaries that religious identity is always unverifiable. The first study to explore serial conversion as a discrete phenomenon in this era, The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England challenges confessional divisions within much early modern historiography by analyzing the surprising convergence of Protestant and Catholic in the figure of the serial convert. It also reveals a neglected strain of religious discourse in early modern England that valued mutability and flexibility even in the midst of hardening and increasingly narrow understandings of conversion.
Author : Hannah Korell
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2022
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"This dissertation develops a feminist literary history of religious conversion in early modern drama from 1590-1634. Bringing dramatic works into conversation with an archive of biological, theological, and social discourses circulating about women during the period, I argue that early modern drama depicted women and the supernatural as central to the process of religious conversion. While the English Reformation has traditionally been considered hostile to the concept of supernatural womanhood, I reveal how the feminine occult was subsumed into the phenomenon of religious conversion. The early modern theatre was a crucial cite for exploring and disseminating the links between the occult, supernatural nature of women and the mysterious process of conversion. Through a variety of theatrical genres, the playhouse both echoed antifeminine discourses and established positive interpretations for women's powers that situated them as holy, God-given, and imperative for the burgeoning English nation-state. This dissertation thus recovers the vital importance of women to discussions of early modern conversion. My four chapters take up different female archetypes, showing how witches, wives, resurrected women, and prophetesses and martyrs were depicted as central to the process of individual, community, and national religious conversion. I reveal how playwrights often envisioned white Christian women voluntarily upholding and refashioning patriarchal structures. Rather than suffocating female power, the recovered political and social communities at the plays' close are a testament to women's work. Given women's perceived openness to the divine, their decisions to procure spiritual conversions in their husbands, kings, and lovers could be leveraged as signs of divine approval for England's conversional projects at home and abroad. The plays studied in this dissertation participate in a larger cultural movement to sanction England's imperial impulses in ways that place white women at the heart of this process"--