ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book analyses the intersection of dramatic and religious discourse, the relation between identity and religio-political values, and how drama has reflected and informed people’s orientation to the sacred in modern Britain. It shows that there is no such thing as an innocent reading of the Bible. Drawing upon a wealth of original and secondary research from literary and theatre studies, religious studies, sociology, and critical theory, the book presents the relation of drama to the processes of secularization and de-secularization, religious ‘othering,’ and the shifting templates of traditional, modern, and postmodern conceptions of God. Like their Early Modern counterparts, modern British playwrights have found the Bible a rich resource for plot-lines, characters, language, metaphors, and theological inquiry and critique.
