Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street

403 Pages·2018·8.796 MB·English

by  Matthew J. Smith

PERFORMANCE AND RELIGION
IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern
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PERF ORMANCE
AND REL IG ION
in Early Modern England
Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street
MATTHEW J. SMITH
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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Names: Smith, Matthew J., 1983- author.
Title: Performance and religion in early modern England : stage, cathedral,
wagon, street / Matthew J. Smith.
Description: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. |
Series: Reformations: medieval and early modern |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subjects: LCSH: English drama—Early modern and Elizabethan,
1500–1600—History and criticism. | Christian drama, English—England—
History and criticism. | Mysteries and miracle-plays, English—History and
criticism. | Liturgy and drama—England. | Rites and ceremonies in literature. |
Religion in literature. | Theater—England—History—16th century.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Prelude 1
Chapter One
Early Modern Theatricality across the Reformation 13
Chapter Two
The Real Presence/Absence of God in the 52
Chester Cycle Plays
Chapter Three
Henry V and the Ceremonies of Theater 114
Chapter Four
God’s Idioms: Sermon Belief in Donne’s London 155
Chapter Five
Performing Religion in Early Modern Ballads 192
Chapter Six
The Devils among Us: Intertheatricality in 253
Doctor Faustus and Its Afterlives
Postlude: Ending with a Jig 308
Notes 322
Bibliography 351
Index 376

ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 2.1. Bakers at work, in Ordinary of the Company 77
of Bakers in the city of York, ca. 1600
Figure 2.2. Cena Domini and Manna Datur Filiis Israel, 79
in Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1375–1400
Figure 2.3. Feast of Corpus Christi, in Missale ad vsum 89
insignis ecclesie Sarisburiensis, 1555
Figure 4.1. Wenceslaus Hollar, Interior of Old St. Pauls, 162
1656
Figure 4.2. St. Paul’s Cathedral Precinct, copperplate map 163
of London, 1559
Figure 4.3. Wire frame image of the acoustic model, Paul’s 165
Churchyard, the Cross Yard
Figure 4.4. John Gipkyn, Old St Paul’s (sermon at St Paul’s 168
Cross), 1616
Figure 5.1. Ballad, “The Heartie Confession of a Christian,” 216
1593
Figure 5.2. “The order for the buryal of the dead,” in 220
The boke of common praier, 1573
Figure 5.3. The Holy Gospel of Iesus Christ according to 222
Iohn, Geneva Bible, 1602
Figure 5.4. Ballad, “A Song of Syon of the Beauty of 224
Bethell,” 1642
Figure 5.5. Ballad, “The Dying Tears of a Penitent Sinner,” 229
1678–80
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