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Greene, Martha Denise.

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Social gospels: Class, race, and sexuality in twentieth-century biblical drama.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Social gospels: Class, race, and sexuality in twentieth-century biblical drama./
Author:	Greene, Martha Denise.
Description:	207 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Kimball King.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-03A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3007807
ISBN:	0493172696

Social gospels: Class, race, and sexuality in twentieth-century biblical drama.
Greene, Martha Denise.

Social gospels: Class, race, and sexuality in twentieth-century biblical drama. - 207 p.

Adviser: Kimball King.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Before its decline during the Reformation, English biblical drama illustrated salvation history and prompted medieval audiences to repent. When it re-emerged in England and the United States in the twentieth century, the genre retained its didactic function. Instead of urging audiences to repent of sin, however, many modern dramatists used the gospel to decry social injustices resulting from classism, racism, and homophobia. This dissertation examines those intersections of politics and art as they occur within the religious framework modern biblical drama provides.

ISBN: 0493172696Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Social gospels: Class, race, and sexuality in twentieth-century biblical drama.
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520 $a Chapter One treats the biblical plays of John Masefield and Dorothy L. Sayers, Anglican writers whose works challenged English views of class within the Church and the wider society. Chapter Two discusses the religious dramas of Ridgely Torrence and Marc Connelly, white American playwrights who denounced racial injustice by casting African-Americans in their re-tellings of biblical stories. Chapter Three examines the ways in which Terrence McNally's and Paul Rudnick's “gay gospels” affirm the social and spiritual equality of homosexuals. The fourth chapter takes up revivals of medieval cycle plays in the 1980s and 1990s, considering devotional and civic productions as well as the critically acclaimed mystery plays of such professional dramatists as Tony Harrison, Edward Kemp, and Katie Mitchell.
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