Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108477038
ISBN-13
9781108477031
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 3rd, 2019
Print length
226 Pages
Weight
47 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.90 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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The first cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage. Discussing over forty dramatic pieces, the book introduces little known conversion plays and offers fresh readings of canonical drama, including Shakespeare's Othello, to reveal telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.
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.
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