{"product_id":"shadow-and-substance-eucharistic-controversy-and-english-drama-across-the-reformation-divide-9780268102302","title":"Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow and Substance\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegardless of one's specific religious identity, to speak of the Eucharist during that time was to speak of dynamic interactions between body and sign. In crossing periodic boundaries and revising familiar historical narratives, \u003ci\u003eShadow and Substance\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the idea that the Protestant Reformation brings about a decisive shift from the flesh to the word, the theological to the poetic, and the sacred to the secular. The book also adds to studies of English drama and Reformation history by providing an account of how Eucharistic discourse informs understandings of semiotic representation in broader cultural domains.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis bold study offers fresh, imaginative readings of theology, sermons, devotional books, and dramatic texts from a range of historical, literary, and religious perspectives. Each of the book's chapters creates a dialogue between different strands of Eucharistic theology and different varieties of English drama. Spanning England's long reformation, these plays-some religious in subject matter, others far more secular-reimagine semiotic struggles that stem from the controversies over Christ's body at a time when these very concepts were undergoing significant rethinking in both religious and literary contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow and Substance\u003c\/i\u003e will have a wide appeal, especially to those interested in medieval and early modern drama and performance, literary theory, Reformation history, and literature and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Zysk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268102302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJay Zysk\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40058173489267,"sku":"9.78027E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_33814b58-301e-45ff-8a3d-f5d1e3ec5747.jpg?v=1651586338","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/shadow-and-substance-eucharistic-controversy-and-english-drama-across-the-reformation-divide-9780268102302","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}