Prayer Book Communion and The Spanish Tragedy
This article reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy within the context of the popular practice of the Prayer Book Communion service contemporary with the play's performances in Elizabethan playhouses. It stresses the continuities between Kyd's theatrical appropriation of the Eucharist...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Renaissance and reformation
Year: 2022, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-132 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Communitarianism
B Theaters B Reconciliation B Spanish Tragedy, The (Play : Kyd) B Lord's Supper B Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594 |
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| Summary: | This article reads Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy within the context of the popular practice of the Prayer Book Communion service contemporary with the play's performances in Elizabethan playhouses. It stresses the continuities between Kyd's theatrical appropriation of the Eucharist and a popular conception of the Communion service that emphasizes its role in establishing and affirming public reconciliation, neighbourly concord, and parochial unity. Through an allusion to the Eucharist in Hieronimo's handkerchief, The Spanish Tragedy deploys the Communion's penitential, soteriological, and communitarian associations to serve its uniquely theatrical ends. The play's metatheatrical thematization of representational modalities allows the audience to collectively confront their own sinful desire and then witness their pardon from punishment for that desire at the expense of the onstage representational substitutes. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2293-7374 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Renaissance and reformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.33137/rr.v45i1.39116 |