Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide

Author:   Jay Zysk
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
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9780268102302


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
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Author:   Jay Zysk
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint:   University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780268102302


ISBN 10:   0268102309
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   30 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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The book makes a convincing case that the issues of the Eucharist controversies are echoed in medieval and early modern drama and that we should not underestimate the importance of religion in these plays. The scholarship is truly impressive. -- Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland Zysk's insightful and well-structured approach studies Christ's Eucharistic body as a semiotic goldmine from which differing religious and philosophical interpretations influence the writing and performances of late medieval and early modern English drama. His clearly written original argument reveals how the semiotics of the bread and wine, word and flesh of the sacrament, are given surprising new contexts in each play. -- <i>Parergon</i> Across a broad range of resources, this book explicates enduring intersections of linguistic signs and dramatic texts with human and sacred bodies, thereby demonstrating the enormous, if not always immediately evident, influence of Eucharistic semiotics on medieval and early modern creative expression. Zysk's learned and imaginatively conceived study of dramatic sacramental theology poses new, indeed essential, frames of reference for thinking about early English theater, religion, and literary history. -- Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland Jay Zysk seems very much in command as he negotiates notoriously difficult primary texts and complex semiotic theory with a level of detail that is as lucid as it is exacting. This is a compelling book, and it is written with verve, learning, and conviction. -- Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita of English and Humanities, Davidson College In performing what essentially amounts to synchronic criticism, this book sustains a welcome re-periodization of English drama across the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. More broadly, Zysk provides a non-diachronic model for other scholars whose work sits on either end of the Middle Ages as well as for studies on topics, such as sexuality, race, and performance, that defy the normal junctures of received periodization. -- <i>The Medieval Review</i> Religious reformation is for Jay Zysk 'not a fixed epistemological shift' but rather 'a constellation of diverse theological and semiotic positions asserted and interpreted over time.' This well-written book asks for a reading of early English drama that is not dogmatic in choosing one side or the other, and readers should find its arguments worth pondering as issues of critical interpretation. -- David Bevington, emeritus, University of Chicago


The book makes a convincing case that the issues of the Eucharist controversies are echoed in medieval and early modern drama and that we should not underestimate the importance of religion in these plays. The scholarship is truly impressive. -- Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland Religious reformation is for Jay Zysk 'not a fixed epistemological shift' but rather 'a constellation of diverse theological and semiotic positions asserted and interpreted over time.' This well-written book asks for a reading of early English drama that is not dogmatic in choosing one side or the other, and readers should find its arguments worth pondering as issues of critical interpretation. -- David Bevington, emeritus, University of Chicago Across a broad range of resources, this book explicates enduring intersections of linguistic signs and dramatic texts with human and sacred bodies, thereby demonstrating the enormous, if not always immediately evident, influence of Eucharistic semiotics on medieval and early modern creative expression. Zysk's learned and imaginatively conceived study of dramatic sacramental theology poses new, indeed essential, frames of reference for thinking about early English theater, religion, and literary history. -- Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland Jay Zysk seems very much in command as he negotiates notoriously difficult primary texts and complex semiotic theory with a level of detail that is as lucid as it is exacting. This is a compelling book, and it is written with verve, learning, and conviction. -- Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita of English and Humanities, Davidson College In performing what essentially amounts to synchronic criticism, this book sustains a welcome re-periodization of English drama across the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. More broadly, Zysk provides a non-diachronic model for other scholars whose work sits on either end of the Middle Ages as well as for studies on topics, such as sexuality, race, and performance, that defy the normal junctures of received periodization. -- <i>The Medieval Review</i> Zysk's insightful and well-structured approach studies Christ's Eucharistic body as a semiotic goldmine from which differing religious and philosophical interpretations influence the writing and performances of late medieval and early modern English drama. His clearly written original argument reveals how the semiotics of the bread and wine, word and flesh of the sacrament, are given surprising new contexts in each play. -- <i>Parergon</i>


The book makes a convincing case that the issues of the Eucharist controversies are echoed in medieval and early modern drama and that we should not underestimate the importance of religion in these plays. The scholarship is truly impressive. --Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland


Jay Zysk seems very much in command as he negotiates notoriously difficult primary texts and complex semiotic theory with a level of detail that is as lucid as it is exacting. This is a compelling book, and it is written with verve, learning, and conviction. - Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emerita of English and Humanities, Davidson College The book makes a convincing case that the issues of the Eucharist controversies are echoed in medieval and early modern drama and that we should not underestimate the importance of religion in these plays. The scholarship is truly impressive. - Kent Cartwright, University of Maryland


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Jay Zysk is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

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