Rapatz Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works

In Medias Res
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5015-1314-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama

attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's ; Marlowe's comic tragedy ; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas and ; Aphra Behn's Restoration comedy ; and seventeenth-century dialogues that include both a Catholic treatise promoting women's entrance into European convents and a proto-pornographic exposé of such convents. Convents, novices, and problem plays emerge as parallel sites of ambiguity that reflect the social, political, and religious uncertainties England faced after the Reformation.

Vanessa L. Rapatz, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapatz, Vanessa L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

Vanessa L. Rapatz, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA.