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Theo-Political Consensus in Antitheatrical Polemic and Metatheatrical Drama.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Theo-Political Consensus in Antitheatrical Polemic and Metatheatrical Drama./
作者:	Besteman, Bethany.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	198 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
標題:	English literature. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30421638
ISBN:	9798379519889

Theo-Political Consensus in Antitheatrical Polemic and Metatheatrical Drama.
Besteman, Bethany.

Theo-Political Consensus in Antitheatrical Polemic and Metatheatrical Drama. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 198 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2023.

Theo-political Consensus in Antitheatrical Polemic and Metatheatrical Drama reconsiders the antitheatrical polemic of Elizabethan England. I redirect the conversation about the antitheatricals away from a focus on their conflict with writers of defenses and with dramatists towards the common ground shared among these groups: Reformed political theology. Obviously, the polemicists disagreed about whether drama had a place in Early Modern England, but the source of disagreement was in the authorities each group privileged. The antitheatricals take as their primary authority the church fathers, and the protheatricals take as their authority classical authors. As far as these writers look to the past, they are divided, but where contemporary theological and political issues arise and intersect, they agree. This agreement emerges when focusing on polemic works with a shared historical context. Antitheatricality in Early Modern England is often discussed as a static set of arguments, such that early works from the 1570s have been grouped together with works written in 1633, shortly before the Civil War. To do so elides a significant period of time, ignoring the impact of historical and religious context. I focus on the early years of Elizabethan antitheatricality in the 1570s and '80s and those defenses that were penned at or around that same time. When I take up theater that engages with this debate, I focus on plays written before or shortly after 1590. Within these historical parameters, the political theology that shapes and informs the works is distinctly Reformed in nature. This dissertation examines the polemic through the lens of Reformed sacramental theology and Reformed covenantal theology. I demonstrate that the Reformed emphasis on God's sovereignty and ability to achieve divine ends in and through any instrument-central to the nuanced Reformed position on the Lord's supper-informs both the anti- and protheatricals' arguments. Likewise, both groups employ the Reformed logic of the covenantal matrix of obligation and membership to articulate the civic and religious forces responsible for the reformation of society. Early Modern English drama engages with this polemic metatheatrically. I show that in two comedies, A Looking Glass for London and England and Old Wives' Tale the Reformed agenda is promulgated by metatheatrical means. I suggest in my conclusion that while analyzing Elizabethan tragedy nuances and complicates the theater's self-perception as an agent of moral change, the Reformed position taken by this dissertation anticipates and approves of those complications as the logical outcome of a Reformed worldview. The chapters are as follows: 1. Introduction-Reconsidering the Antitheatricals; 2. Authority and Hermeneutics in the Antitheatrical Polemic; 3. Christ's Body-Reformed Theology in Antitheatricals and Protheatricals 4. Covenant and Commonweal-Political theology in the Antitheatrical Polemic; 5. Comedic Metatheater and Reformed Political Theology; 6. Conclusion: Implications and Limitations.

ISBN: 9798379519889Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English literature.
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