LEADER 04208oam 2200697I 450 001 9910789603403321 005 20230725031024.0 010 $a1-136-80710-1 010 $a1-283-10370-2 010 $a9786613103703 010 $a1-136-80711-X 010 $a0-203-82826-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203828267 035 $a(CKB)2670000000082301 035 $a(EBL)668559 035 $a(OCoLC)712039901 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471465 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12174206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471465 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10427619 035 $a(PQKB)10508663 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668559 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668559 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10462549 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL310370 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000082301 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMoral play and counterpublic $etransformations in moral drama, 1465-1599 /$fIneke Murakami 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v18 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-367-86580-7 311 $a0-415-88631-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $a"In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre's apparently inert conventions from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind's soul veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to the peace of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;$v18. 606 $aMoralities, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aChristian drama, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMoralities, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aChristian drama, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a822/.05160902 686 $aLIT019000$aLIT011000$aLIT000000$2bisacsh 700 $aMurakami$b Ineke.$01512049 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789603403321 996 $aMoral play and counterpublic$93745703 997 $aUNINA