Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions

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RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND EARLY MODERN ENGLISH TEXTS Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions Edited by Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt Wayne State University Press Detroit © 2013 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Religious diversity and early modern English texts : Catholic, Judaic, feminist, and secular dimensions / edited by Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8143-3955-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8143-3956-5 (ebook) 1. English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 2. Religion and literature—Great Britain. 3. Christianity and other religions in literature— Great Britain. 4. Great Britain—Intellectual life. I. Marotti, Arthur F., 1940– editor of compilation. PR428.R46R47 2013 820.9'382—dc23 2013006166 Typeset by Westchester Composed in Warnock Pro and Meta Plates in Lowell Gallagher’s “Remembering Lot’s Wife: The Structure of Testimony in the Painted Life of Mary Ward” published by permission of Congregatio Jesu Augsburg (Germany). Photos: Studio Tanner, Nesselwang. Photographs in Chanita Goodblatt’s “Performance and Parshanut: The Historie of Jacob and Esau” are by Adva Abergel Salomon and are printed with her permission. The Israel Science Foundation and the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev funded the international symposium “Religious Culture in the Early Modern Period: Tradition, Authority, Heterodoxy” (2005), in which many of the contributors to the present volume participated. We would like to thank Professor David Newman, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, for providing a grant to support publication of this book. ...