Early Modern Drama and the Bible

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Situating the Bible in Early Modern Drama; A.Streete PART I: REPRESENTING THE BIBLE IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA: MATERIAL AND VERBAL CONTEXTS Enter The Book: Reading the Bible on the Early Modern Stage; M.Davies Measuring up to Nebuchadnezzar: Biblical Presences in Shakespeare's Tragicomedies; H.Wilcox Fatal Visions: The Image as Actor in Early Modern Tragedy; P.Canning PART II: POLITICAL THEOLOGY, THE BIBLE AND DRAMA Political Theology in George Buchanan's Baptistes ; D.Cavanagh The Ethics of Pardoning in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure ; P.Cefalu Punishing Perjury in Love's Labour's Lost ; J.Hudson PART III: BIBLICAL READINGS ON STAGE: PULPIT, HOUSEHOLD AND POLITICAL CONTROVERSY 'They repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here': A Looking Glass for London and England , Hosea and the Destruction of Jerusalem; B.Groves Marital Infidelity and Christian Self-Sacrifice in Thomas Heywood's How a Good Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad ; E.McManus Reading the White Devil in Thomas Adams and John Webster; E.Rhatigan Situating Political and Biblical Authority in Massinger and Field's The Fatal Dowry ; A.Streete Afterword; H.Hamlin Bibliography Index