The destruction of Jerusalem in early modern English literature /
"This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a n...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Literary Culture: 1. From Roman to Jew: Josephus, the Josippon and the destruction of Jerusalem in early modern culture; 2. Continuity and change: staging Jerusalem and staging 'the Jew'; 3. Preachers and players: the sack of Jerusalem from pulpit and stage; Part II. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Texts: 4. Marlowe's Jew of Malta and the destruction of Jerusalem; 5. The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in Shakespeare's King John; 6. The fall of Jerusalem and the rise of a metropolis: Nashe's Christ's tears over Jerusalem, Dekker's plague pamphlets and maternal cannibalism in early modern London; 7. The New Jerusalem: Josephan portents and Milton's Paradise Lost; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.