"Many of the essays in this collection were presented at the Seventeenth Waterloo Conference on Elizabethan Theatre, 'Religion and Theatre,' held in Waterloo, Ontario, in June 2005"--Acknow. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The secular theater / Sanctifying the bourgeoisie : the cultural work of The comedy of errors / Anthony B. Dawson. 'In a Christian climate' : religion and honor in Richard II / Debora Shuger -- Dramatic continuities and religious change. -- William Cecil and the drama of persuasion / Alexandra F. Johnston -- The Queen's Men and the performance of allegiance, conformity, and difference in Elizabethan Norwich / Mary A. Blackstone -- Things newly performed : the resurrection tradition in Shakespeare's plays / Elizabeth Williamson -- Staging allegiance, re-membering trials : King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theatre / Karen Sawyer Marsalek -- Religious identities. -- 'Mirth in heaven' : religion and festivity in As you like it / Phebe Jensen -- Speaking daggers : Shakespeare's troubled ministers / Glenn Clark -- Othello in the wilderness : how did Shakespeare use his Bible? / Tom Bishop -- Shakespeare and the changing theater : religion or the secular. -- Author, king, and Christ in Shakespeare's histories / Jeffrey Knapp -- The secular theater / Anthony B. Dawson.
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