Stages of engagement: drama and religion in post-Reformation England

Introduction: the religious turn's second wave / James D. Mardock

Dramas of doctrine. The reformed conscience: Woodes, Marlowe, and Shakespeare / William W.E. Slights

Stoicism, Calvinism, and determinism in Fulke Greville's Alaham / Daniel Cadman

The Jacob and Esau paradigm: Nicholas Udall's predestinarian problem comedy / Robert Hornback

Staging the politics of reform. Conciliarism and liberty in Shakespeare and Fletcher's Henry VIII / Adrian Streete

Martyrdom and militancy in Marlowe's Massacre at Paris / Elizabeth Pentland

Sacral objects and the measure of kingship in Shakespeare's Henry VI / Brian J. Harries

Performing Protestantism. Performing catechism in Measure for measure / Kathryn R. McPherson

Authorial anxieties and theatrical instability: John Bale's Biblical plays and Shakespeare and Wilkins's Pericles / Katherine A. Gillen

Counterfeiting faith: Middleton's theatrical reformation of Measure for measure / Terri Bourus

Confessional aesthetics and nostalgia. Theatricality, faith, and color imagery in Philip Massinger / Lisa Hopkins

Of ceremonies and Henry VIII / Jason Zysk

Afterword / John D. Cox.