A study of nineteenth-century theatre that explores why, in an age famous for its piety and religious devotion, the English public dramatic repertoire was, by force of law, secular.
A study of nineteenth-century theatre that explores why, in an age famous for its piety and religious devotion, the English public dramatic repertoire was, by force of law, secular.
Jan-Melissa Schramm worked as a lawyer in private practice before undertaking a PhD in English Literature. She is a University Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow in English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). She is the author of two monographs to date, Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and she is co-editor of two volumes of essays, Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt (Macmillan, 2011) and Sacrifice and Modern War Literature (Oxford University Press, 2018).
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* Introduction * 1: Censorship and Sacred Drama: Policing the Performance of Incarnational Art * 2: The Art of the People: Romanticism, the Ritual Year, and the Rediscovery of the Mystery Plays * 3: 'To See the Work of God Performed for Others': Sacrifice, (Self)-Censorship, and Sacred Closet Drama * 4: Ecce Homo, 'Real Presence', and the Word made Flesh: The Drama of the Incarnation in Victorian Literature * 5: Homo Ludens: The Oberammergau Passionsspiele and Tragic 'Play' at Fin-de-Siècle * 6: A Study in Repetition and Revival: Jerrold, Tennyson, T. S. Eliot and the Case of Thomas à Becket * Conclusion: On Tragedy in the Nineteenth Century * Bibliography
* Introduction * 1: Censorship and Sacred Drama: Policing the Performance of Incarnational Art * 2: The Art of the People: Romanticism, the Ritual Year, and the Rediscovery of the Mystery Plays * 3: 'To See the Work of God Performed for Others': Sacrifice, (Self)-Censorship, and Sacred Closet Drama * 4: Ecce Homo, 'Real Presence', and the Word made Flesh: The Drama of the Incarnation in Victorian Literature * 5: Homo Ludens: The Oberammergau Passionsspiele and Tragic 'Play' at Fin-de-Siècle * 6: A Study in Repetition and Revival: Jerrold, Tennyson, T. S. Eliot and the Case of Thomas à Becket * Conclusion: On Tragedy in the Nineteenth Century * Bibliography
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