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Containing detailed readings of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe and Middleton, as well as poetry and prose, this book provides a major historical and critical reassessment of the relationship between early modern Protestantism and drama. Examining the complex and painful shift from late medieval religious culture to a society dominated by the ideas of the Reformers, Adrian Streete presents a fresh understanding of Reformed theology and the representation of early modern subjectivity. Through close analysis of major thinkers such as Augustine, William of Ockham, Erasmus, Luther and Calvin, the book argues for the profoundly Christological focus of Reformed theology and explores how this manifests itself in early modern drama. Moving beyond questions of authorial 'belief', Streete assesses Elizabethan and Jacobean drama's engagement with the challenges of the Reformation.

English drama --- Protestantism and literature --- Protestantism in literature. --- Literature and Protestantism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Arts and Humanities

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Aesthetics, British. --- English drama (Tragedy) --- English drama --- Protestantism and literature --- Renaissance --- Theater --- History and criticism. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- English literature --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599

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Reid Barbour's 2002 study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625-1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavours, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. Barbour examines sermons and theological treatises to argue that Caroline religious culture comprises a rich and extensive stocktaking of the conditions in which Protestantism was celebrated, undercut, and experienced. Barbour argues that this stocktaking was also carried out in unusual and sometimes quite secular contexts; in the masques, plays and poetry of the era as well as in scientific works and diaries. This broad-ranging study offers an extensive appraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.

English literature --- Christianity and literature --- Religion and literature --- Protestantism and literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- England --- Intellectual life --- Church history --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Puritan movements in literature --- Puritans --- English literature --- English literature --- Protestantism and literature --- Dissenters, Religious --- Dissenters, Religious, in literature --- English literature --- England

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Authors, English --- Christian literature, English --- Dissenters, Religious, in literature --- Medievalism --- Protestantism and literature --- Puritans --- Biography --- History and criticism --- History --- History --- Clergy --- Biography --- Bunyan, John,