Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama write by Eva von Contzen. This book was released on 2020-03-13. Enacting the Bible in medieval and early modern drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. Aspects under scrutiny include dramatic traditions, confessional and religious rites, dogmas and debates, conceptualisations of performance, and audience response. The contributors stress the co-presence of biblical and contemporary concerns in the periods under discussion, conceiving of biblical drama as a central participant in the dynamic struggle to both interpret and translate the Bible.
Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama
Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama write by Chanita Goodblatt. This book was released on 2018-02-01. Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. English Biblical drama of the sixteenth century resounds with a variety of Jewish and Christian voices. Whether embodied as characters or manifested as exegetical and performative strategies, these voices participate in the central Reformation project of biblical translation. Such translations and dramatic texts are certainly enriched by studying them within the wider context of medieval and early modern biblical scholarship, which is implemented in biblical translations, commentaries and sermons. This approach is one significant contribution of the present project, as it studies the reciprocal illumination of Bible and Drama. Chanita Goodblatt explores the way in which the interpretive cruxes in the biblical text generate the dramatic text and performance, as well as how the drama’s enactment underlines the ethical and theological issues as the heart of the biblical text. By looking at English Reformation biblical drama through a double-edged prism of exegetical and performative perspectives, Goodblatt adds a new dimension to the existing discussion of the historical resonance of these plays. Jewish and Christian Voices in English Reformation Biblical Drama integrates Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions with the study of Reformation biblical drama. In doing so, this book recovers the interpretive and performative powers of both biblical and dramatic texts.
Morality Play
Morality Play - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Morality Play write by Barry Unsworth. This book was released on 2017-08-29. Morality Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book In medieval England, a runaway scholar-priest named Nicholas Barber has joined a traveling theater troupe as they make their way toward their liege lord’s castle. In need of money, they decide to perform at a village en route. When their traditional morality plays fail to garner them an audience, they begin to stage the “the play of Thomas Wells”—their own depiction of the real-life drama unfolding within the village around the murder of a young boy. The villagers believe they have already identified the killer, and the troupe believes their play will be a straightforward depiction of justice served. But soon the players soon learn that the details of the crime are elusive, and the lines between performance and reality become blurred as they discover, scene by scene, line by line, what really happened. Thought-provoking and unforgettable, Morality Play is at once a masterful work of historical fiction, a gripping murder mystery, and a literary work of the first order.
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature write by Beatrice Groves. This book was released on 2015-09-16. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.
A Companion to Renaissance Drama
A Companion to Renaissance Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Renaissance Drama write by Arthur F. Kinney. This book was released on 2002-06-10. A Companion to Renaissance Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.
