Moral Play and Counterpublic Transformations in Moral Drama 1465 1599 1st Edition by Ineke Murakami 0415886317 9780415886314

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ISBN 10: 0415886317 

ISBN 13: 9780415886314

Author: Ineke Murakami

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, “moral play” served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market–a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.

Table of contents:

1 Mankind Publicizing the New Guise
Dramatizing the Banal
The New Guise
A Purse Trick
The Psychomachic Dialectic

2 William Wager Monstrous Ambition and the Public Weal
Division in the Public Weal
Prodigality and the Limits of Education
Sapience and Things Indifferent
Enough and Monstrous Ambition
Walk Well in Your Vocation
Do All Things to Edify the Congregation

3 History as Allegory Chronicle Plays and the Bid for Public Office
Cambises
Amity, Pastoral, and the Market
Horestes: A Response
State, Sacrifice, and Middling Morality
Cutpurse Theft and the Rogue Within
Marvelous Chance or Just Reward

4 Rhetorical Revolt Marlowe’s Theater of the Public Enemy
Ramist Method and Logickes Chiefest End
Profession: A Labor Contract
Professional Markets and Other Useful Ends
The Fetishism of Contracts and the Secret Thereof
Biopolitical Malta

5 Public Judgment The Virtue of Vice in Jonson’s Sin City
Vice’s New Vocation
An Artisanal Ethos
Commodification and the Agency of Things
Caninum Appetitum

Epilogue Death Comes to Moral Drama

Appendix A
Synopsis of The Longer Thou Livest, The More Fool Thou Art, and Enough is as Good as a Feast

Appendix B
Cambises
Horestes

Abbreviations
Notes
Notes to the Introduction
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 2
Notes to Chapter 3
Notes to Chapter 4
Notes to Chapter 5
Notes to the Epilogue
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

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