Puritanism and Theatre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23169142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margot Heinemann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Puritanism and Theatre (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511561160 |
| OpenAlex | W4246310692 |
| Open Library | OL34439628M |
| ISBN | 9780511561160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
The closing of the theatres by Parliament in 1642 is perhaps the best-known fact in the history of English drama. As the Parliamentary Puritans were then in power, it is easy to assume that all opponents of the theatre were Puritans, and that all Puritans were hostile to the drama. The reality was more interesting and more complicated. Margot Heinemann looks at Thomas Middleton's work in relation to the society and social movements of his time, and traces the connections this work may have had with radical, Parliamentarian or Puritan groups or movements. In the light of the recent work of seventeenth-century historians we can no longer see these complex opposition movements as uniformly anti-theatre or anti-dramatist. The book suggests fresh meanings and implications in Middleton's own writings, and helps towards rethinking the place of drama in the changing life of early Stuart England.
Art · Drama · Literature · Opposition (politics) · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Relation (database) · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity · 1627 · 17th century · Criticism and interpretation · Early Stuarts, 1603-1649 · England · English drama · Great britain · History and criticism · Middleton, thomas · Puritan movements in literature · Puritans · Stage history · Theater · Thomas Middleton (d. 1627)
Lost Plays from Early Modern England
Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04)
Popular culture and the English civil war
Sir Simonds D'Ewes and the levying of ship money, 1635–1640
The Cambridge history of early modern English literature
Drama outside London after 1540
The Bible as play in Reformation England
The development of a professional theatre, 1540–1660
Theatre and controversy, 1572–1603
Working playwrights, 1580–1642
Literature and national identity
The condition of theatre in England in 1599
Middleton and Debt in Timon of Athens
The condition of the theatres in 1642
Alienating Catholics in Early Modern England
Marriage under compulsion in English renaissance drama
Have you read Lipsius?’
Politique tragique vs. politique comique ? Richard III de Shakespeare et A Game at Chess de Middleton
Philip Massinger et le théâtre historique
The Spanish Gypsy (Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker y John Ford, 1623) frente a La gitanilla (1613) de Cervantes
The Lord Mayor's Show in Early Modern London
Seventeenth‐Century Print Culture
Civic ceremony in early modern London
Crisis, criticism and seventeenth‐century English literature
The cunning Rhetor, the complicitous audience, the conned censor, and the critic
The dialectics of honour and shame in Middleton’s The Changeling and contemporary Palestine
The Rhetoric of Providence
Literature and the English Revoluton
In Italian hand”
The Masque of Truth’
Thomas Middleton's the Triumphs of Truth
As If the End They Purpos'd Were Their Own”
The Price of Virginity in the Early Modern Theater
The Levellers and the Conquest of Ireland in 1649
Placing Human Constants within Literary History
English Calvinism and the Crowd
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2025 (44) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |