This book provides a reassessment of the relationship between Reformed theology and early modern literature, with analysis of key writers and thinkers.

Offering fuller understandings of both dramatic representations and the complexities of religious culture, this collection reveals the ways in which religion an

"The prevalent worldview of early modern England, shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism, while al

Huston Diehl sees Elizabethan and Jacobean drama as both a product of the Protestant Reformation--a reformed drama--and a producer of Protestant habits of thoug

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.