This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays.

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DAVID COLEMAN is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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Book Title: Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England
Book Subtitle: Indelible Characters
Authors: David Coleman
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589643
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53583-1Published: 11 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35848-9Published: 01 January 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58964-3Published: 11 October 2007
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 180
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Social History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Theatre and Performance Studies, History of Early Modern Europe

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Sacramental Communities in Pre-Reformation England: The Croxton “Play of the Sacrament”

John Bale and the Politicisation of Sacramentality

Mid-Tudor Drama and Sacramental Reform

Interrogating Sacramentality: The Drama of Christopher Marlowe

Sinful Subjects: Shakespearean Sacramentality

Afterword

Back Matter

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