This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays.

Acknowledgements Introduction Sacramental Communities in Pre-Reformation England: The Croxton Play of the Sacrament John Bale and the Politicisation of Sacramentality Mid-Tudor Drama and Sacramental Reform Interrogating Sacramentality: The Drama of Christopher Marlowe Sinful Subjects: Shakespearean Sacramentality Works Cited Index

DAVID COLEMAN is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Nottingham Trent University, UK.