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Shadow and substance : Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide

Title: Shadow and substance : Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide / Jay Zysk.
Author: Zysk, Jay, 1983-
Publication: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

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Description

xiv, 377 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts. Regardless of one's specific religious identity, to speak of the Eucharist during that time was to speak of dynamic interactions between body and sign. In crossing periodic boundaries and revising familiar historical narratives, Shadow and Substance challenges the idea that the Protestant Reformation brings about a decisive shift from the flesh to the word, the theological to the poetic, and the sacred to the secular. The book also adds to studies of English drama and Reformation history by providing an account of how Eucharistic discourse informs understandings of semiotic representation in broader cultural domains. This bold study offers fresh, imaginative readings of theology, sermons, devotional books, and dramatic texts from a range of historical, literary, and religious perspectives. Each of the book's chapters creates a dialogue between different strands of Eucharistic theology and different varieties of English drama. Spanning England's long reformation, these plays--some religious in subject matter, others far more secular--reimagine semiotic struggles that stem from the controversies over Christ's body at a time when these very concepts were undergoing significant rethinking in both religious and literary contexts. Shadow and Substance will have a wide appeal, especially to those interested in medieval and early modern drama and performance, literary theory, Reformation history, and literature and religion"--

Series Statement

Reformations: medieval and early modern

Uniform Title

Reformations.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : many reformations -- Eucharistic semiotics : the body of Christ and the play of signs -- Words and wounds : Christ crucified and Coriolanus -- Sacramental signs and mystical bodies in Lydgate, Bake, and Shakespeare -- Father Fastus? confection and conjuration in Everyman and Doctor Faustus -- Relics and unreliable bodies in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Changeling -- Conjured to remembrance : Emmaus plays, Jack Juggler, and The Winter's Tale.

Call Number

JFE 17-11255

ISBN

9780268102296
0268102295
9780268102302
0268102309

LCCN

2017024312
40027466897

OCLC

983824450

Author

Zysk, Jay, 1983- author.

Title

Shadow and substance : Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide / Jay Zysk.

Publisher

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Reformations: medieval and early modern

Reformations.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1699

Other Standard Identifier

40027466897

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11255

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