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Article: Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Huston Diehl. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. 16 pls. + xviii + 238 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 0-8014-3303-7.
Huston Diehl lodges a compelling thesis that popular theatrical performances under Elizabeth I and James I functioned as both reformist products of the English Reformation and reforming producers of Protestant habits of mind. Her ideas concerning the role of religion in the shaping of consciousness draw eclectically upon the findings of symbolic anthropologists and cultural theorists. This book breaks new ground in basing its analysis of dramatic texts upon iconographical evidence derived from woodcuts in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and works by ...