| Description |
1 online resource (x, 257 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Stage devils and oppositional thinking; CHAPTER TWO The devil and the sacred in the English mystery plays; CHAPTER THREE Stage devils and sacramental community in non-cycle plays; CHAPTER FOUR Stage devils and early social satire; CHAPTER FIVE Protestant devils and the new community; CHAPTER SIX The devils of "Dr. Faustus"; CHAPTER SEVEN Reacting to Marlowe; CHAPTER EIGHT The devil and the sacred on the Shakespearean stage: theatre and belief; CHAPTER NINE Traditional morality and magical thinking. |
| Summary |
John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama from the Mystery cycles through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Davenant. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Devil in literature.
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Devil in literature. |
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English drama -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
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English drama. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Christian drama, English -- History and criticism.
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Christian drama, English. |
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Christianity and literature -- England -- History.
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Christianity and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Good and evil in literature.
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Good and evil in literature. |
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Holy, The, in literature.
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Holy, The, in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cox, John D., 1945- Devil and the sacred in English drama, 1350-1642. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521790905 (DLC) 00036290 (OCoLC)43811094 |
| ISBN |
0511017243 (electronic book) |
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9780511017247 (electronic book) |
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0521790905 (hardback) |
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9780521790901 (hardback) |
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0511031416 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511031410 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511046685 |
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9780511046681 |
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051111897X (electronic book) |
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9780511118975 (electronic book) |
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9780511483271 (electronic book) |
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0511483279 (electronic book) |
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1280159286 |
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9781280159282 |
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