Performing Habakkuk Faithful re-enactment in the midst of crisis
Jeanette Mathews
- U.S.A. Pickwick Publications 2012
- 251tr. Paperback, illustrations 24cm
... In this new study Jeanette Mathews demonstrates how literature from the diverse field of performance studies can be applied to the prophetic book of Habakkuk in order to draw out themes and features that are common to both. Mathews offers a fresh new translation of Habakkuk that emphasizes and celebrates its intrinsic dramatic features. This translation provides the ""script"" for the performance of Habakkuk. The attitudes and actions of the ""actors"" in the performance become models for their ""audience,"" such that the audience members are drawn into the performance and do not remain impartial spectators...