Divine Poetry and Drama in Sixteenth-Century England
Divine Poetry and Drama in Sixteenth-Century England
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GBPThe Reformation and the impact of the Renaissance were almost simultaneous in England. So the English versions of the Bible appeared at much the same time as the new, worldly forms of verse and drama. It was not long before serious-minded poets and playwrights used the Bible thus made available for new forms of religious verse. There was an important but neglected succession of writers who did this, culminating in Milton. The forms involved include the sonnet, the miniature epic and the popular drama. Miss Campbell treats both dramatic and non-dramatic literature. She shows that both kinds were new and not prolongations of medieval forms: the 'divine' lyric is a counterpart of the new secular lyric, and professedly hostile to it; and the 'divine' drama is an adaptation of current popular forms and not a development of the mystery play.
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February 2011Paperback
9780521137010
280 pages
216 × 140 × 16 mm
0.36kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Divine Poetry in Sixteenth-Century England:
- 1. The forerunner: Savonarola
- 2. The theorist: Erasmus
- 3. The Bible as English literature: Tyndale and the Catholic Opposition
- 4. The first English song book: Luther and Coverdale
- 5. The psalms as English poetry under Edward VI
- 6. The psalms as English poetry under Elizabeth I
- 7. The works of Solomon as English poetry
- 8. Other books of the Bible as English poetry
- 9. Du Bartas and King James and the Christian muse
- 10. Du Bartas and English poets
- 11. Poems about Biblical heroes
- 12. Divine mirrors and related poems
- 13. Divine erotic epyllia
- 14. Divine sonnets
- Part II. Divine Drama in Sixteenth-Century England:
- 1. The divine drama and the miracle play
- 2. Continental origins of the divine drama in Latin
- 3. Continental school drama in the vernacular
- 4. Latin divine dramas in English schools
- 5. Divine dramas in English universities
- 6. Biblical plays for special audiences: prodigal-son plays
- 7. Biblical plays for special audiences
- 8. Biblical plays for the commons
- 9. Biblical plays in the public theatres
- Index.
