The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

Lisa Hopkins

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2022

The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

Lisa Hopkins

In the series Late Tudor and Stuart Drama

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501514159

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Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.

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Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: The Edge and the Centre
Chapter 1 “All places shall be hell that are not heaven”: The Edge of Rome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
3 Danger and Demarcation in Massinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Part Two: Edges Abroad
Chapter 4 “Having passed Armenian deserts now”: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5 Bears and Fairies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
6 The Last Plays and the Edges of Christendom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
7 The Politics of the Rose: English Histories and Foreign Flowers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Part Three: Edges at Home
Chapter 8 North by North-West: The Danelaw and the Edge of Christendom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
9 Let the Right One In: Edges of Christendom in Cavendish-Talbot Houses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Index of Place Names, Authors, and Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, Scholars of Theatre Studies and Shakespeare Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 250
Keywords: Christendom; Europe; Borders; Gardens; Catholicism

eBook

Published: March 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781501514159

Hardcover

Published: March 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781501520334