Great Victorian Sacrilege

Preachers, Politics and The Passion, 1879-1884

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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What happens when freedom of artistic expression offends freedom of religion? A great controversy arose when America's first professional Passion play, staged in San Francisco in 1879, was pronounced a "sacrilege" by Protestant ministers (Salmi Morse's play, The Passion, was in reality a pious description of the Gospel story). This work shows that Morse and his play were victims of the Protestant church's struggle to maintain power during the late 1800s, a time when America was changing into a more urban nation. This saga of a society's attempt to control "immoral"art by government intervention is also a disconcerting look at how easily artistic freedom can be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-02-06
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786473878

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part One: The Passion in San Francisco, 1879Prologue: The Most Despised Human Being in America 1. A “Wicked, Unchristian Pastime” 2. Don Quixote, Munchausen, and Salmi Morse 3. “A Miracle Play in Ten Acts” 4. Preachers, the Press, and Politics as Usual 5. The Passion Premieres 6. “It Is the Cross Strangled by the Cross” Part Two: The Passion in New York, 1880-18847. “The Grandest Thing I Ever Listened To” ...“A National Disaster” 8. The Mirror’s War on Mr. Abbey 9. The Shrine of the Holy Passion 10. The Passion Plays New York at Last 11. The Aftermath: “Alas, Poor Yorick!” 12. The Resurrection and Redemption of The Passion Notes Bibliography Index