The Aesthetics of Antichrist : : From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe / / John Parker.
In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence. The Aesthetics of Antichrist explores this apparent paradox by suggesting that, long before Marlowe, Christian drama and ritual...
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Parker, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Aesthetics of Antichrist : From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe / John Parker. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2011 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. After Strange Gods: The Making of Christ and His Doubles -- CHAPTER 1. Lying Likenesses: Typology and the Medieval Miracula -- CHAPTER 2. Blood Money: Antichristian Economics and the Drama of the Sacraments -- CHAPTER 3. Vicarious Criminal: Christ as Representative -- CHAPTER 4. The Curious Sovereignty of Art: Marlowe's Sacred Counterfeits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence. The Aesthetics of Antichrist explores this apparent paradox by suggesting that, long before Marlowe, Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents—paganism, Judaism, worldliness, heresy. By embracing this tradition, Marlowe's work would at once demonstrate the theatricality inhering in Christian worship and, unexpectedly, resacralize the commercial theater.The Antichrist myth in particular tells of an impostor turned prophet: performing Christ's life, he reduces the godhead to a special effect yet in so doing foretells the real second coming. Medieval audiences, as well as Marlowe's, could evidently enjoy the constant confusion between true Christianity and its empty look-alikes for that very reason: mimetic degradation anticipated some final, as yet deferred revelation. Mere theater was a necessary prelude to redemption. The versions of the myth we find in Marlowe and earlier drama actually approximate, John Parker argues, a premodern theory of the redemptive effect of dramatic representation itself. Crossing the divide between medieval and Renaissance theater while drawing heavily on New Testament scholarship, Patristics, and research into the apocrypha, The Aesthetics of Antichrist proposes a wholesale rereading of pre-Shakespearean drama. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) Literary Studies. Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Performing Arts & Drama. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801463549 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801463549 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801463549/original |
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