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9780521137010

Divine Poetry and Drama in Sixteenth-century England

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521137010

  • ISBN10:

    0521137012

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-03-02
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Divine Poetry in Sixteenth-Century England:
The forerunner: Savonarola
The theorist: Erasmus
The Bible as English literature: Tyndale and the Catholic Opposition
The first English song book: Luther and Coverdale
The psalms as English poetry under Edward VI
The psalms as English poetry under Elizabeth I
The works of Solomon as English poetry
Other books of the Bible as English poetry
Du Bartas and King James and the Christian muse
Du Bartas and English poets
Poems about Biblical heroes
Divine mirrors and related poems
Divine erotic epyllia
Divine sonnets
Divine Drama in Sixteenth-Century England:
The divine drama and the miracle play
Continental origins of the divine drama in Latin
Continental school drama in the vernacular
Latin divine dramas in English schools
Divine dramas in English universities
Biblical plays for special audiences: prodigal-son plays
Biblical plays for special audiences
Biblical plays for the commons
Biblical plays in the public theatres
Index
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