The Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe

by John Parker

Book Overview

In Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his own reputation for anti-Christian irreverence. The Aesthetics of Antichrist explores this apparent paradox by suggesting that, long before Marlowe, Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents--paganism, Judaism, worldliness, heresy. By...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801445191
• ISBN13: 9780801445194
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher