Writing the Reformation: Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History PlayRoutledge, 30 de nov. 2017 - 216 pàgines This title was first published in 2002. This work invests the post-Shakespearean history plays of the Jacobean era - including among others Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (1613), Dekker's "The Whore of Babylon" (1606), and Heywood's "If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody" (1604-5)-with new significance by recognizing the role they played in popularizing and re-appropriating Foxe's "Book of Martyrs", one of the most formative and culturally significant Reformation texts. This study presents the historical stage as a site of a continuing Reformation debate over the nature of political authority, the validity of conscience and the challenge to social and gender hierarchies implicit in Protestant doctrine. Relating each play to contemporary political events, the book demonstrates the role of the Jacobean stage in promoting reformation and informing with providential meaning the events unfolding outside the theatre. |
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... rebellion, and the eventual execution. Noting discrepancies in the record which would have placed Oldcastle in Wales during the time of the rebellion, Foxe also questions the veracity of a reported uprising that no chronicler had, in ...
... rebellions, such preambles were written, Foxe maintains, to justify more stringent laws against heretics (III, 355-56, 364). Like Foxe, the Jacobean dramatists wrote for an audience 'conditioned to think of dissent as equivalent to ...
... rebellion , Holinshed reported that Acton and his 28 followers had been executed for either rebellion or heresy , or for ' both ' charges as indicated by the official indictment . He also provided the account of ' others ' ( like Foxe ) ...
... rebellion against Queen Mary, Dekker and Webster's Sir Thomas Wyatt (1603-05) echoes the work of other Foxean dramatists, contesting the official record of a convicted traitor.23 In claiming Wyatt for the Protestant cause, the stage ...
... rebellion. Clearly, for Foxe, Wyatt modeled a resistance at odds with the passive obedience to which the faithful were called. The alternative of active resistance against tyrannical monarchs was significantly absent from Foxe's ...
Continguts
Authority on the Tragicomic | |
Staging the Record | |
Staging | |
Staging a Female | |
Foxean Revisions on the Jacobean Stage | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play Marsha S. Robinson Visualització de fragments - 2002 |
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Writing the Reformation: Acts and Monuments and the Jacobean History Play Marsha Robinson Previsualització no disponible - 2017 |