Religion and Theatrical Drama
Bouchard, Larry D.
Religion and Theatrical Drama - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 - 1 electronic resource (159 p.)
Open Access
With an introduction on how to redefine our thinking about religion and theatrical drama, these nine essays on contemporary and classic plays rehabilitate the link between theatrical performance and dramatic stories for the study of religion. These new and distinctively interdisciplinary perspectives will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of religion, theology, theatre and performance studies, literary studies, and philosophy.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-0365-2596-9 9783036525976 9783036525969
10.3390/books978-3-0365-2596-9 doi
The arts
Theatre studies
heaven hell purgatory Jesuits Salesians drama education Italy musical gender queer Butler Tracy embodiment theology anthropology John Paul II martyrdom early modern Jacobean masculinity virgin metatheatre limit experience religious dimensionality Wilder Sondheim Lapine Measure for Measure Cheek By Jowl performance the body the trinity Christology rhetoric repetition triadic logic semiotics American avant-garde theater Gertrude Stein metaphysical religion Syria witness theatrical drama Romeo and Juliet Frans van der Lugt comparative theology William Shakespeare Ibsen Doll’s House Nora Torvald Helmer Christianity Christ religion sacrifice idealism Calvin Balthasar improvisation time death theatrical hermeneutics n/a
Religion and Theatrical Drama - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021 - 1 electronic resource (159 p.)
Open Access
With an introduction on how to redefine our thinking about religion and theatrical drama, these nine essays on contemporary and classic plays rehabilitate the link between theatrical performance and dramatic stories for the study of religion. These new and distinctively interdisciplinary perspectives will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of religion, theology, theatre and performance studies, literary studies, and philosophy.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-0365-2596-9 9783036525976 9783036525969
10.3390/books978-3-0365-2596-9 doi
The arts
Theatre studies
heaven hell purgatory Jesuits Salesians drama education Italy musical gender queer Butler Tracy embodiment theology anthropology John Paul II martyrdom early modern Jacobean masculinity virgin metatheatre limit experience religious dimensionality Wilder Sondheim Lapine Measure for Measure Cheek By Jowl performance the body the trinity Christology rhetoric repetition triadic logic semiotics American avant-garde theater Gertrude Stein metaphysical religion Syria witness theatrical drama Romeo and Juliet Frans van der Lugt comparative theology William Shakespeare Ibsen Doll’s House Nora Torvald Helmer Christianity Christ religion sacrifice idealism Calvin Balthasar improvisation time death theatrical hermeneutics n/a