The Play of Paradox: Stage and Sermon in Renaissance EnglandThis 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. |
Contents
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Polemics and Irenics at Pauls Cross | 31 |
3 Holy Cozenage and the Renaissance Cult of the Ear | 50 |
Comic Edification and Inclusion | 73 |
The Rhetoric of Judgment in Field and Shakespeare | 95 |
Tragedy Watershed and Confluence | 123 |
The Theology and Theatrics of Renaissance Dying | 141 |
Conclusion | 159 |
Notes | 161 |
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