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Auteur(s) : Schramm, Jan-Melissa
Titre(s) : Censorship and the representation of the sacred in nineteenth-century England [Texte imprimé] / Jan-Melissa Schramm
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-266 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 244-258. Index
Throughout the nineteenth century, the performance of sacred drama on the English
public stage was prohibited by law and custom left over from the Reformation: successive
Examiners of Plays, under the control of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, censored and
suppressed both devotional and blasphemous plays alike. Whilst the Biblical sublime
found expression in the visual arts, the epic, and the oratorio, nineteenth-century
spoken drama remained secular by force of precedent and law. The maintenance of this
ban was underpinned by Protestant anxieties about bodily performance, impersonation,
and the power of the image that persisted long after the Reformation, and that were
in fact bolstered by the return of Catholicism to public prominence after the passage
of the Catholic Relief Act in 1829 and the restoration of the Catholic Archbishoprics
in 1850. But even as anti-Catholic prejudice at mid-century reached new heights, the
turn towards medievalism in the visual arts, antiquarianism in literary history, and
the 'popular' in constitutional reform placed England's pre- Reformation past at the
centre of debates about the uses of the public stage and the functions of a truly
national drama. 0This book explores the recovery of the texts of the extant mystery-play
cycles undertaken by antiquarians in the early nineteenth century and the eventual
return of sacred drama to English public theatres at the start of the twentieth century.
Consequently, law, literature, politics, and theatre history are brought into conversation
with one another in order to illuminate the history of sacred drama and Protestant
ant-theatricalism in England in the long nineteenth-century
Sujet(s) : Censure -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Religion et culture -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Religion et théâtre -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198826060. - ISBN 9780198826064 (rel.)
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