Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling: Theater in Post-Reformation London

Musa Gurnis

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2019

Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling

Theater in Post-Reformation London

Musa Gurnis

In the series Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295184

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About this book

Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling explores the mutually generative relationship between post-Reformation religious life and London's commercial theaters. By engaging with dramatic texts and performance practices, Musa Gurnis demonstrates how early modern theater drew mixed-faith playgoers into new relations with a complex religious culture.

Author / Editor information

Musa Gurnis is an independent scholar and theater practitioner based in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

"Focusing on the confessional, social, and political dimensions of post-Reformation theater in early modern England, Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling brings together a broad and deep familiarity with early modern drama as well as a deft understanding of the ways in which theatrical form and performance can shape individual and collective identities."—Steven Mullaney, University of Michigan

"Mixed Faith and Shared Feeling is an unusually compelling book. It is artfully conceived and exhaustively researched and takes its readers on a thoroughly engaging, wide-ranging, and profoundly interactive journey through the material—confessional on the one hand, theatrical on the other. And it does this in a way that successively explodes a number of received ideas and unexamined myths, chief among which is that card-carrying Puritans never attended, much less tolerated, public theater plays."—Thomas Cartelli, Muhlenberg College

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Mixed Faith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter 2. Shared Feeling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 3. In Mixed Company: Collaboration in Commercial Theater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 4. Making a Public Through A Game at Chess Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter 5. Measure for Measure: Theatrical Cues and Confessional Codes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Epilogue: Pity in the Public Sphere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 5 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: July 31, 2018
ISBN: 9780812295184