Religion and drama in early modern England: the performance of religion on the Renaissance stage

Introduction / Jane Hwang Degenhardt and Elizabeth Williamson

The idolatrous nose : incense on the early modern stage / Holly Crawford Pickett

Singing a new song in The shoemaker's holiday / Jacqueline Wylde

"Looking Jewish" on the early modern stage / Peter Berek

Muslim conversion and circumcision as theater / Dennis Britton

Popular worship and visual paradigms in Love's labor's lost / Erika T. Lin

"It is requir'd you do awake your faith" : belief in Shakespeare's theater / Susannah Brietz Monta

Archbishop Whitgift and the plague in Thomas Nashe's Summer's last will and testament / Paul Whitfield White

"Handling religion in the style of the stage" : performing the Marprelate controversy / Joseph L. Black

Martyr acts : playing with Foxe's martyrs on the public stage / Musa Gurnis-Farrell

"The juice of Egypt's grape" : Plutarch, syncretism, and Antony and Cleopatra / Michael O'Connell

Paul Shakespeare : exegetical exercises / Julia Reinhard Lupton

Claudius at prayer / Anthony B. Dawson.