The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350–1642

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ID19947901
AuthorsJohn D Cox (0000-0003-3561-2982, Hope College, corresponding author), John D-undifferentiated Cox
Year2000
Publication date2000-10-17
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDevil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511483271
OpenAlexW1499762410
Open LibraryOL6784428M
ISBN9780511483271
LanguageEN
Citations received17

John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision of E. K. Chambers' ideas of stage devils in The Medieval Stage (1903), arguing that this is not a history of gradual secularization, as scholarship has maintained for the last century, but rather that stage devils were profoundly shaped from the outset by the assumptions of sacred drama and retained this shape virtually unchanged until the advent of permanent commercial theatres near London. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama including the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (1 and 2 Henry VI), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. An appendix lists all known devil plays in English from the beginning to 1642

Art · Art history · Drama · Literature · Order (exchange) · Scholarship · Secularization · The Renaissance · Theology · Classics · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · 1500-1600 · 17th century · Christianity and literature · Devil in literature · Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 · England · English Christian drama · English drama · English drama, early modern and elizabethan · English drama, history and criticism · English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan · Evil in literature · Good and evil in literature · History and criticism · Holy, The, in literature · To 1500

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