Forms of faith (eBook)

1 Introduction: a world of difference: religion, literary form, and the negotiation of conflict in early modern England – Jonathan Baldo and Isabel Karremann
Part I: Religious ritual and literary form
2 Shylock celebrates Easter – Brooke Conti
3 Protestant faith and Catholic charity: negotiating confessional difference in early modern Christmas celebrations – Phebe Jensen
4 Singing in the counter: goodnight ballads in Eastward Ho – Jacqueline Wylde
5 Romancing the Eucharist: confessional conflict and Elizabethan romances – Christina Wald
6. Edmund Spenser’s The Ruines of Time as a Protestant poetics of mourning and commemoration – Isabel Karremann
Part II: Negotiating confessional conflict
7 Letters to a young prince: confessional conflict and the origins of English Protestantism in Samuel Rowley’s When You See Me You Know Me (1605) – Brian Walsh
8 Tragic mediation in The White Devil – Thomas J. Moretti
9 ‘A deed without a name:’ evading theology in Macbeth – James R. Macdonald
10 Henry V and the interrogative conscience as a space for the performative negotiation of confessional conflict – Mary A. Blackstone
11 Formal experimentation and the question of Donne’s ecumenicalism – Alexandra M. Block
12 Foucault, confession, and Donne – Joel M. Dodson
13 Afterword: reformed indifferently – Richard Wilson
Index