Prayer Book Communion and The Spanish Tragedy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID16347262
AutoresLucas Simpson (University of Victoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen45
Número1
Páginas109-132
Fecha de publicación2022-08-11
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRenaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33137/rr.v45i1.39116
OpenAlexW4296571136
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas9

This article reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy within the context of the popular practice of the Prayer Book Communion service contemporary with the play’s performances in Elizabethan playhouses. It stresses the continuities between Kyd’s theatrical appropriation of the Eucharist and a popular conception of the Communion service that emphasizes its role in establishing and affirming public reconciliation, neighbourly concord, and parochial unity. Through an allusion to the Eucharist in Hieronimo’s handkerchief, The Spanish Tragedy deploys the Communion’s penitential, soteriological, and communitarian associations to serve its uniquely theatrical ends. The play’s metatheatrical thematization of representational modalities allows the audience to collectively confront their own sinful desire and then witness their pardon from punishment for that desire at the expense of the onstage representational substitutes

Aesthetics · Allusion · Appropriation · Art · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Eucharist · Literature · Penitential · Prayer · Theology · Tragedy (event · Witness · Worship · Early Modern Spanish Literature · History · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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