‘Nothing that is so is so’: Twelfth Night and Transubstantiation
This article proposes that important aspects of Twelfth Night are illuminated by knowledge of Reformation eucharistic controversies, specifically over transubstantiation. Precedent is supplied by the anonymous Jack Juggler (printed c. 1562). Some puzzling passages in the play, especially the speeche...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2003
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Literature and theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 281-297 |
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| Summary: | This article proposes that important aspects of Twelfth Night are illuminated by knowledge of Reformation eucharistic controversies, specifically over transubstantiation. Precedent is supplied by the anonymous Jack Juggler (printed c. 1562). Some puzzling passages in the play, especially the speeches of Feste, are elucidated by reference to Lollard writings and controversial exchanges between Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner. The play’s conjunction of an incarnational philosophy with a self-conscious awareness of drama as an art of the body is set against the broader background of medieval dramatic representations of the Mass, and of contemporary writing on the body. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/17.3.281 |