Introduction : situating the Bible in early modern drama / Adrian Streete -- Enter the book : reading the Bible on the early modern stage / Michael Davies -- Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar : biblical presences in Shakespeare's tragicomedies / Helen Wilcox -- 'Fatal visions' : the image as actor in early modern tragedy / Patricia Canning -- Political theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes / Dermot Cavanagh -- The ethics of pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for measure / Paul Cefalu -- Punishing perjury in Love's labour's lost / Judith Hudson -- 'They repented at the preachyng of Ionas : and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here' : a looking glass for London and England, Hosea and the destruction of Jerusalem / Beatrice Groves -- Marital infidelity and Christian self-sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a man may choose a good wife from a bad / Emer McManus -- Reading the white devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster / Emma Rhatigan -- Situating political and biblical authority in Massinger and Field's The fatal dowry / Adrian Streete -- Afterword / Hannibal Hamlin.
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