Marian Moments in Early Modern British Drama

By Lisa Hopkins

Book Overview

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 the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the period and the theater that it spawned. Contributors analyze the vestiges of Catholic tradition and culture that leak out in stage imagery, plot devices, and characterization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754656373
• ISBN13: 9780754656371
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages