The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature

ISBN: 9781107533851 出版年：2015 页码：284 Beatrice Groves Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Literary Culture: 1. From Roman to Jew: Josephus, the Josippon and the destruction of Jerusalem in early modern culture 2. Continuity and change: staging Jerusalem and staging 'the Jew' 3. Preachers and players: the sack of Jerusalem from pulpit and stage Part II. The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern Texts: 4. Marlowe's Jew of Malta and the destruction of Jerusalem 5. The siege of Jerusalem and subversive rhetoric in Shakespeare's King John 6. The fall of Jerusalem and the rise of a metropolis: Nashe's Christ's tears over Jerusalem, Dekker's plague pamphlets and maternal cannibalism in early modern London 7. The New Jerusalem: Josephan portents and Milton's Paradise Lost Conclusion Bibliography Index.