The Play of Paradox : : Stage and Sermon in Renaissance England / / Bryan Crockett.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
1. Introduction: Bucer's Round Church and Shakespeare's "Wooden O"-The Circulation of the Reformation Sermon and the Renaissance Play --
Part I: Polemics and Irenics at Paul's Cross --
2. The Pulpit Performance and the Two-Edged Sword --
3. "Holy Cozenage" and the Renaissance Cult of the Ear --
Part II: Comic Edification and Inclusion --
4. Satire and Social Structure --
5. "Strange Tempests": The Rhetoric of Judgment in Field and Shakespeare --
Part III: Tragedy: Watershed and Confluence --
6. The Mist and the Wilderness: Protestant Paradox in Gifford and Webster --
7. Donne in on Shakespeare's Stage: The Theology and Theatrics of Renaissance Dying --
Conclusion --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512805499
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512805499
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Bryan Crockett.