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The devil and the sacred in English drama, 1350-1642
Scholarly study of English stage devils from 1350–1642, arguing they stayed rooted in sacred drama rather than gradual secularization.
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Scholarly study of English stage devils from 1350–1642, arguing they stayed rooted in sacred drama rather than gradual secularization.
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"John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in 1642. The book represents a major revision of E.K. Chambers' ideas of stage devils in The Medieval Stage (1903), arguing that this is not a history of gradual secularization, as scholarship has maintained for the last century, but rather that stage devils were profoundly shaped from the outset by the assumptions of sacred drama and retained...
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Central focus on sacred drama, theology, and redemptive communal faith
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Brief academic discussion of stage magic in Renaissance plays
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Pervasive study of stage devils, demonology, and demonic figures
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Recurring analysis of communal values and social cohesion
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