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100	1		_aDiehl, Huston.
245	1	0	_aStaging Reform, Reforming the Stage : _bProtestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England.
264		1	_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c2019.
264		4	_c�2019.
300			_a1 online resource (261 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
520			_aHuston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation-a reformed drama-and a producer of Protestant habits of thought-a reforming drama. According to Diehl, the popular London theater, which flourished in the years after Elizabeth reestablished Protestantism in England, rehearsed the religious crises that disrupted, divided, energized, and in many respects revolutionized English society. Drawing on the insights of symbolic anthropologists, Diehl explores the relationship between the suppression of late medieval religious cultures, with their rituals, symbols, plays, processions, and devotional practices, and the emergence of a popular theater under the Protestant monarchs Elizabeth and James. Questioning long-held assumptions that the reformed religion was inherently antitheatrical, she shows how the reformers invented new forms of theater, even as they condemned a Roman Catholic theatricality they associated with magic, sensuality, and duplicity. Using as her central texts the tragedies of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster, Diehl maintains that plays of the period reflexively explore their own power to dazzle, seduce, and deceive. Employing a reformed rhetoric that is both powerful and profoundly disturbing, they disrupt their own stunning spectacles. Out of this creative tension between theatricality and antitheatricality emerges a distinctly Protestant aesthetic.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aEnglish drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
650		0	_aProtestantism and literature--History--16th century.
650		0	_aProtestantism and literature--History--17th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aDiehl, Huston _tStaging Reform, Reforming the Stage _dIthaca : Cornell University Press,c2019 _z9780801433030
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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