Stages of Engagement ― Drama and Religion in Post-reformation England

Mardock and McPherson present a collection of essays and scholarly articles focused on the influence of religion on the early modern English theater. Subjects covered include dramas of doctrine in the work of Woodes, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Greville, and Udall, staging the politics of reform, in the work of Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Marlowe, performing Protestantism in the work of Shakespeare, Bale, Wilkin's, and Middleton, and confessional aesthetics and nostalgia in the work of Massinger and Shakespeare. Mardock is a faculty member of the University of Nevada. McPherson is a faculty member of Utah Valley University. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

James D. Mardock is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, where he was named the 2011 Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. He is the author of Our Scene Is London: Ben Jonson’s City and the Space of the Author, and he has edited quarto and folio editions of Henry V for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, for which he serves as associate general editor. He has also served as the dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.

Kathryn R. McPherson is professor of English at Utah Valley University and the 2012 recipient of the Trustees Award, the university’s highest honor. She is the coeditor of Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries; Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance; and Performing Maternity in Early Modern England.