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The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England

Author : Holly Crawford Pickett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512825654
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England written by Holly Crawford Pickett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England

Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317068106
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Drama in Early Modern England written by Elizabeth Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England

Author : Abigail Shinn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319965778
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England written by Abigail Shinn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama

Author : Lieke Stelling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477038
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama written by Lieke Stelling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism

Author : Lowell Gallagher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695498
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism by : Lowell Gallagher

Download or read book Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism written by Lowell Gallagher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous climate of early modern England had a profound effect on its Catholic population's domestic life, social customs, literary inventions, and political arguments. Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism explores the broad spectrum of the early modern English Catholic experience, presenting fresh and often startling assessments of the most problematic topics in post-Reformation English Catholicism. The contributors to this volume – all leading or rising scholars of early modern studies – conceptualize English Catholicism as a hazardous series of contested territories divided by shifting boundaries, requiring Catholics to navigate with vigilance and diplomacy their status as 'insiders' or 'outsiders.' This collection also presents new ways to understand the connections between reformist and Catholic inflections in the emerging canon of English poetry, despite the eventual marginalization of Catholic poets in English literary history. Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism ably demonstrates the profoundly experimental as well as recuperative character of early modern English Catholicism.

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England

Author : Dr Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478637
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and Drama in Early Modern England by : Dr Elizabeth Williamson

Download or read book Religion and Drama in Early Modern England written by Dr Elizabeth Williamson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds

Author : L. McJannet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119824
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds written by L. McJannet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book analyze a range of genres and considers geographical areas beyond the Ottoman Empire to deepen our post-Saidian understanding of the complexity of real and imagined "traffic" between England and the "Islamic worlds" it encountered and constructed.

The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Molly Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521113873
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature written by Molly Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the poetry written by converts between Catholic and Protestant churches within post-Reformation England.

Early Modern Literature in History

Author : Cedric C.. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Literature in History written by Cedric C.. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1997* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198860633
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 written by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-14 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on--and challenges--the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion

Author : Stephen Wittek
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031119614
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion written by Stephen Wittek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a close look at Shakespeare’s engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England. For playhouse audiences during the period, conversional thought encompassed a markedly diverse, fluid amalgamation of ideas, practices, and arguments centered on the means by which an individual could move from one category of identity to another. In an analysis that includes chapter-length readings of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part I, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Tempest, the book argues that Shakespearean drama made a unique and substantive intervention in public discourse surrounding conversion, and continues to speak meaningfully about conversional experience for audiences in the present age. It will be of particular benefit to students and scholars with an interest in theatrical history, performance theory, theology, cultural studies, race studies, and gender studies.

The Invention of China in Early Modern England

Author : Jonathan E. Lux
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030840328
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of China in Early Modern England written by Jonathan E. Lux and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusion—a dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042077
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England by : Andrew Hadfield

Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular culture in England is collected in one volume, highlighting the interplay of 'low' and 'high' modes of cultural production (while also questioning the validity of such terminology). The authors examine how popular culture impacted upon people's everyday lives during the period, helping to define how individuals and groups experienced the world. Issues as disparate as popular reading cultures, games, food and drink, time, textiles, religious belief and superstition, and the function of festivals and rituals are discussed. This research companion will be an essential resource for scholars and students of early modern history and culture.

The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135016187X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways? Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through the collection is a shared focus on contemporary concerns, with contributors exploring how race, religion, environment, gender and sexuality animate 16th- and 17th-century drama and, crucially, the questions we bring to our study, teaching and research of it. The volume includes a ground-breaking assessment of the chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources and an annotated bibliography to assist researchers as they pursue their own avenues of inquiry. Combining original research with an account of the current state of play, The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama will be an invaluable resource both for experienced scholars and for those beginning work in the field.

Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England

Author : Rebecca Lemon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812294815
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England written by Rebecca Lemon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might consider themselves addicted to study, friendship, love, or God. However, she also uncovers their understanding of addiction as a form of compulsion that resonates with modern scientific definitions. Specifically, early modern medical tracts, legal rulings, and religious polemic stressed the dangers of addiction to alcohol in terms of disease, compulsion, and enslavement. Yet the relationship between these two understandings of addiction was not simply oppositional, for what unites these discourses is a shared emphasis on addiction as the overthrow of the will. Etymologically, "addiction" is a verbal contract or a pledge, and even as sixteenth-century audiences actively embraced addiction to God and love, writers warned against commitment to improper forms of addiction, and the term became increasingly associated with disease and tyranny. Examining canonical texts including Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, Henry IV, and Othello alongside theological, medical, imaginative, and legal writings, Lemon traces the variety of early modern addictive attachments. Although contemporary notions of addiction seem to bear little resemblance to its initial meanings, Lemon argues that the early modern period's understanding of addiction is relevant to our modern conceptions of, and debates about, the phenomenon.

Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage

Author : Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748643206
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage written by Jane Hwang Degenhardt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period

Author : John R. Decker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000435490
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period written by John R. Decker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group of people, or a particular person, received and made sense of sermons, public proclamations, dramatic and musical performances, images, objects, and spaces. The ways in which each of these were framed and executed could have a serious impact on their relevance and effectiveness. The chapters in this volume explore the ways in which authors, poets, artists, preachers, theologians, playwrights, and performers took account of and encoded pluriform potential audiences, readers, and viewers in their works, and how these varied parties encountered and responded to these works. The contributors here investigate these complex interactions through a variety of critical and methodological lenses.