The play of paradox
stage and sermon in Renaissance England
by Bryan Crockett
The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England is a wide-ranging investigation of Tudor/Stuart drama, Reformation preaching, and the relations between the two. The cross-fertilization between the two kinds of performance engendered among audiences a ready receptivity to the rhetorical use of paradox. The two modes similarly capitalized on characteristic Renaissance syntheses of magic, drama, and religion to develop strategies for negotiating state control.
In chapters that set comedies and tragedies by Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster, and others side by side with sermons by Hooker, Andrewes, Donne, and popular preachers whose works have not been reprinted since the early seventeenth century, Bryan Crockett argues that stage and pulpit performances elicited similar responses to the political and theological divisions marked by the incessant polemics of the age.
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Religious aspects, English Sermons, Religious aspects of Paradox, English drama, History and criticism, Christianity and literature, Christianity, Renaissance, Theater, Preaching, Sermons, English, Paradox, History, DRAMA, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Early modern and Elizabethan, English, Languages & Literatures, English Literature, Great britain, history, modern period, 1485-, Great britain, church history, modern period, 1485-, English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan, 1500-1600Places
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Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England
2016, University of Pennsylvania Press
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1512805491 9781512805499
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The play of paradox: stage and sermon in Renaissance England
1995, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
0812233166 9780812233162
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.
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