Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England

by Kathryn Read McPherson

Neuer came Reformation in a Flood, / With such a heady currance, exclaims the Archbishop of Canterbury in Shakespeare's Henry V, describing the king's seemingly miraculous conversion from the reprobate prince he had been. This description must have seemed quite apt to Shakespeare's post-Reformation audience. Religious reform in early modern England, whether driven by individual experience or by institutional theology or politics, occurred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820704733
• ISBN13: 9780820704739
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"