04208oam 2200697I 450 991078960340332120230725031024.01-136-80710-11-283-10370-297866131037031-136-80711-X0-203-82826-710.4324/9780203828267 (CKB)2670000000082301(EBL)668559(OCoLC)712039901(SSID)ssj0000471465(PQKBManifestationID)12174206(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471465(PQKBWorkID)10427619(PQKB)10508663(MiAaPQ)EBC668559(Au-PeEL)EBL668559(CaPaEBR)ebr10462549(CaONFJC)MIL310370(EXLCZ)99267000000008230120180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoral play and counterpublic transformations in moral drama, 1465-1599 /Ineke MurakamiNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (261 p.)Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;18Description based upon print version of record.0-367-86580-7 0-415-88631-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Moral Play and Counterpublic; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Public, Scurrilous and Profane": Moral Drama 1465-1599; 1. Mankind: Publicizing the New Guise; 2. William Wager: Monstrous Ambition and the Public Weal; 3. History as Allegory: Chronicle Plays and the Bid for Public Office; 4. Rhetorical Revolt: Marlowe's Theater of the Public Enemy; 5. Public Judgment: The Virtue of Vice in Jonson's Sin City; Epilogue: Death Comes to Moral Drama; Appendix A; Appendix B; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index"In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre's apparently inert conventions from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind's soul veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to the peace of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority"--Provided by publisher.Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;18.Moralities, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismLiterature and societyEnglandLondonHistory16th centuryChristian drama, EnglishHistory and criticismMoralities, EnglishHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryChristian drama, EnglishHistory and criticism.822/.05160902LIT019000LIT011000LIT000000bisacshMurakami Ineke.1512049MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789603403321Moral play and counterpublic3745703UNINA