The Bible And Modern British Drama
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The Bible And Modern British Drama
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Author : Mary F. Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-02
The Bible And Modern British Drama written by Mary F. Brewer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-02 with Drama categories.
The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories, such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analysed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish, and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers, and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a "good" life, both on an individual and social level.
Early Modern Drama And The Bible
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Author : A. Streete
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Early Modern Drama And The Bible written by A. Streete and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible.
Religion In Modern English Drama
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Author : Gerald Weales
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1976
Religion In Modern English Drama written by Gerald Weales and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Drama categories.
Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century
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Author : Christopher Innes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-28
Modern British Drama The Twentieth Century written by Christopher Innes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-28 with Drama categories.
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Marian Moments In Early Modern British Drama
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Author : Lisa Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06
Marian Moments In Early Modern British Drama written by Lisa Hopkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Concerning itself with the complex interplay between iconoclasm against images of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England and stage representations that evoke various 'Marian moments' from the medieval, Catholic past, this collection answers the call for further investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the early modern period and the theater that it spawned. Joining historians in rejecting the received belief that Catholicism could be turned on and off like a water spigot in response to sixteenth-century religious reform, the early modern British theater scholars in this collection turn their attention to the vestiges of Catholic tradition and culture that leak out in stage imagery, plot devices, and characterization in ways that are not always clearly engaged in the business of Protestant panegyric or polemic. Among the questions they address are: What is the cultural function of dramatic Marian moments? Are Marian moments nostalgic for, or critical of, the 'Old Faith'? How do Marian moments negotiate the cultural trauma of iconoclasm and/or the Reformation in early modern England? Did these stage pictures of Mary provide subversive touchstones for the Old Faith of particular import to crypto-Catholic or recusant members of the audience?
Enacting The Bible In Medieval And Early Modern Drama
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Author : Eva von Contzen
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-13
Enacting The Bible In Medieval And Early Modern Drama written by Eva von Contzen and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-13 with Drama categories.
The thirteen chapters in this collection open up new horizons for the study of biblical drama by putting special emphasis on multitemporality, the intersections of biblical narrative and performance, and the strategies employed by playwrights to rework and adapt the biblical source material in Catholic, Protestant and Jewish culture. Aspects under scrutiny include dramatic traditions, confessional and religious rites, dogmas and debates, conceptualisations of performance, and audience response. The contributors stress the co-presence of biblical and contemporary concerns in the periods under discussion, conceiving of biblical drama as a central participant in the dynamic struggle to both interpret and translate the Bible.
Adaptations Versions And Perversions In Modern British Drama
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Author : Ignacio Ramos Gay
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Adaptations Versions And Perversions In Modern British Drama written by Ignacio Ramos Gay and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Performing Arts categories.
This book aims to explore which plays were deemed ‘suitable’ to be reworked for foreign or local stages; what transformations – linguistic, semiotic, theatrical – were undertaken so as to accommodate international audiences; how national literary traditions are forged, altered, and diluted by means of transnational adapting techniques; and, finally, to what extent the categorical boundaries between original plays and adaptations may be blurred on the account of such adjusting textual strategies. It brings together ten articles that scrutinise the linguistic, social, political and theatrical complexities inherent in the intercultural transference of plays. The approaches presented by the different contributors investigate modern British theatre as an instance of diachronic and synchronic transnational adaptations based upon a myriad of influences originating in, and projected upon, other national dramatic traditions. These traditions, rooted in relatively distant geographies and epochs, are traced so as to illustrate the split between the state-imposed identity and personal, subjective identity caused by cultural negotiations of the self in an age of globalism. International frontiers are thus pointed at in order to claim the need to be transcended in the process of cultural re-appropriation associated with theatre performance for international audiences.
A Reader S Guide To Modern British Drama
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Author : Sanford Sternlicht
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2004-12-01
A Reader S Guide To Modern British Drama written by Sanford Sternlicht and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book reveals the influences of modern history and psychology on British drama; the all-important influence of Irish dramatists like Wilde, Shaw, O’Casey, and Beckett; the significance of the Independent Theatre of J. T. Grein and the early Royal Court Theatre; the gay community’s contribution to the British theater; the powerful new feminist drama; and the British festival theater. Auseful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great dramatic tradition and vital contemporary theater, for students pursuing drama studies, and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work.
Apocalypse And Anti Catholicism In Seventeenth Century English Drama
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Author : Adrian Streete
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-17
Apocalypse And Anti Catholicism In Seventeenth Century English Drama written by Adrian Streete and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-17 with Drama categories.
Streete studies the political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama, focusing on the plays of Marston, Middleton, Massinger, and Dryden. Drawing on recent work in religious and political history, he rethinks how religion is debated in the early modern theatre.
The Blackwell Companion To The Bible In English Literature
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Author : Rebecca Lemon
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-02-28
The Blackwell Companion To The Bible In English Literature written by Rebecca Lemon and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with Religion categories.
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it