The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm & Theater in Early Modern England.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm & Theater in Early Modern England. By MICHAEL O'CONNELL. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. ix+198 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-513205-X.

In this learned and well-argued study Michael O'Connell explores the link between the pronounced iconoclasm of mid-Tudor England and the subsequent emergence of the public theatre. That the two events should somehow be related makes historical sense. The iconoclasm practised in sixteenth-century England was the largest and most destructive iconoclastic period in history. Such ...

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