The Aesthetics of Antichrist : From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe.

Cover -- The Aesthetics of Antichrist -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: After Strange Gods: The Making of Christ and His Doubles -- The Orthodoxy of Heresy -- From Script to Scripture -- The Gospel Truth -- Christ as Antichrist -- The Sign of Jonah -- Salvation through Antichrist -- 1 Lying Likenesses: Typology and the Medieval Miracula -- Imago in Evangelio -- The Typological Image -- Ad Imaginem in the York Cycle -- Miracula -- Salvaging the Audience, or Christ as Antichrist Redux -- Antichrist and Antitheatricalism -- The Chester Antichrist -- The Anagogical Promise of Art -- 2 Blood Money: Antichristian Economics and the Drama of the Sacraments -- The Root of All Evil -- Blinde Rekenynge (Everyman) -- Judas Superstar -- The Offertory as Price of Admission -- The Miracle at Croxton -- Coda: The Blood Money of Mankind -- 3 Vicarious Criminal: Christ as Representative -- Antigraphy (the Making of the Septuagint) -- Christ and Vicarious Substitution -- Christian Appropriation -- The Deceiver Deceived and the Cycles' Descent -- Virgin Birth, or the Septuagint Redux -- 4 The Curious Sovereignty of Art: Marlowe's Sacred Counterfeits -- Marlowe the Antichrist -- Jesus Barabbas, Son of God -- Apostolic Conquest (Tamburlaine and Paul) -- Faustus Magus -- Index.

Exploring works from the Middle Ages to Marlowe, this book argues that Christian drama and ritual performance had reveled in staging the collapse of Christianity into its historical opponents (paganism, heresy), a tradition Marlowe embraced.

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