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1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) |
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polychrome |
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JSTOR EBA.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: After Strange Gods: the Making of Christ and his Doubles -- The Orthodoxy of Heresy -- From Script to Scripture-- The Gospel Truth -- Christ as Antichrist -- The Sign of Jonah -- Salvation through Antichrist -- Lying Likenesses: Typology and the Medieval Miracula -- Imago in Evangelio --The Typological Image -- Ad Imaginem in the York Cycle -- Miracula -- Salvaging the Audience, or Christ as Antichrist Redux -- Antichrist and Antitheatricalism -- The Chester Antichrist -- The Anagogical Promise of Art -- Blood Money: Antichristian Economics and the Drama of the Sacraments -- The Root of All Evil -- Blinde Reckeninge (Everyman) -- Judas Superstar -- The Offertory as Price of Admission -- The Miracle at Croxton -- Coda: the Blood Money of Mankind -- Vicarious Criminal: Christ as Representative -- Antigraphy (the Making of the Septuagint -- Christ and Vicarious Substitution -- Christian Appropriation -- The Deceiver Deceived and the Cycles' Descent -- Virgin Birth, or the Septuagint Redux -- The Curious Sovereignty of Art: Marlowe's Sacred Counterfeits -- Marlowe the Antichrist -- Jesus Barabbas, Son of God -- Apostolic Conquest (Tamburlaine and Paul) -- Faustus Magus. |
| Summary |
Crossing the divide between medieval and Renaissance theater while drawing heavily on New Testament scholarship, Patristics, and research into the apocrypha, this text proposes a wholesale rereading of pre-Shakespearean drama. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified. MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Religion.
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. |
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Religion. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
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Christian drama, English -- History and criticism.
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Christian drama, English. |
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Christianity and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Antichrist in literature.
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Antichrist in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1600 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parker, John, 1972- Aesthetics of Antichrist. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007018959 |
| ISBN |
9780801463549 (electronic book) |
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0801463548 (electronic book) |
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9780801445194 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0801445191 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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