This book is an exploration of the linguistic, structural, historical, and thematic relationships of religion and drama. It is not an attempt to sacralize drama so that it becomes a substitute for religion, nor will it reduce religion to its aesthetic dimension. What does religion tell us about drama, and what does drama tell us about religion? What have been their inter-actions in our tradition?
The conversation between religion and culture, drama and Christianity, needs to be ongoing. This book is a contribution to the dialogue, asking questions, pointing towards possible answers, and encouraging others to join in the conversation.
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Table of contents
- Inter-Actions
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Places of Seeing: Religion and Theater
- Part One: DRAMA AND RELIGION: THEIR LANGUAGES
- Chapter One: Drama: Where the Action Is
- Chapter Two: Biblical Revelation: The Mighty Acts of God
- Part Two: DRAMA AND RELIGION: THEIR STRUCTURES
- Chapter Three: Ritual: The Act Re-Done
- Chapter Four: The Play’s the Thing in Drama and Religion
- Chapter Five: Worship: The Drama Re-Enacted
- Part Three: DRAMA AND RELIGION: THEIR HISTORY
- Chapter Six: Dionysus: Lord of the Greek Theater
- Chapter Seven: Religion and Drama in Opposition: Two Instances
- Chapter Eight: The Medieval Stage: The Inherent Drama in the Mass
- Chapter Nine: From Liturgy to the Plays of Mystery, Miracle and Morality
- Chapter Ten: Shakespeare: All the World’s a Stage
- Chapter Eleven: Modern Drama: If the Stage is All the World There Is
- Chapter Twelve: Contemporary Theater: Glimpses of the Transcendent
- Chapter Thirteen: T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
- Chapter Fourteen: Samuel Beckett, Endgame
- Chapter Fifteen: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- Chapter Sixteen: Peter Shaffer, Equus
- Chapter Seventeen: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
- Chapter Eighteen: Tony Kushner, Angels in America
- Chapter Nineteen: Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses
- Coda: Life is a Drama!
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