Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One: Performing the Protestant Reformation -- a. Theater and Reformation in Bern -- b. The Stage as Pulpit: Reformers on Theater -- c. Enacting Community -- Chapter Two: Bern at the Crossroads of Reform -- a. Bern, Swiss Protestantism, and the Helvetian Confederacy -- b. Literature and the Arts -- c. Plays and Playwrights -- Chapter Three: Protestant Carnival: A Contradiction in Terms? -- a. Transgression, Politics, and Religion -- b. Niklaus Manuel and Bernese Carnival before 1528 -- c. Reformation Theology and Carnival -- d. Post-Reformation Carnival in Bern (1530-1534) -- Chapter Four: Theocracy and Theater -- a. Piety and Patriarchy -- b. The Armor of Faith: Goliath (1535, 1545, 1555) -- c. "Pious on account of good works": Potiphar's Wife in Joseph (1538) -- d. Revolt, Order, and Iconoclasm in Gedeon (1540) -- e. "That it be told every instant": Bearing Witness in Noe (1546) -- f. "Un-Luther Characters": Confessionalism in Osterspiel (1552) -- Chapter Five: Protestant Visual Culture and the Stage -- a. Niklaus Manuel: From Painter to Playwright -- b. Protestant Theater as Visual Medium -- c. Theater as Broadsheet -- d. Theater as Merkbild -- Chapter Six: Music, Play, and Worship -- a. Zwingli, Bern, and the Music of Swiss Protestantism -- b. The Choral Interludes of Renaissance Theater -- c. The Music of Bernese Reformation Drama -- Chapter Seven: Mediating Change -- Appendix: Song Texts -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Places -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P.

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