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Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England - Tragedy, Religion and Violence on Stage (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England - Tragedy, Religion and Violence on Stage (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster
and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England argues
that the English tragedians reflected an unease within the culture
to acts of religious violence. David Anderson explores a link
between the unstable emotional response of society to religious
executions in the Tudor-Stuart period, and the revival of tragic
drama as a major cultural form for the first time since classical
antiquity. Placing John Foxe at the center of his historical
argument, Anderson argues that Foxe's Book of Martyrs exerted a
profound effect on the social conscience of English Protestantism
in his own time and for the next century. While scholars have in
recent years discussed the impact of Foxe and the martyrs on the
period's literature, this book is the first to examine how these
most vivid symbols of Reformation-era violence influenced the
makers of tragedy. As the persecuting and the persecuted churches
collided over the martyr's body, Anderson posits, stress fractures
ran through the culture and into the playhouse; in their depictions
of violence, the early modern tragedians focused on the ethical
confrontation between collective power and the individual sufferer.
Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England sheds new light on the
particular emotional energy of Tudor-Stuart tragedy, and helps
explain why the genre reemerged at this time.
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