Claudia Richter studied English Literature and Religious Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, and English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh (UK). For her MA thesis, The Aesthetics of Violence in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe, she received the Martin Lehnert Award, which is annually awarded by the German Shakespeare Society. In the past, she has been a lecturer and a researcher at Freie Universität Berlin.

• Contents: Iconoclasm, Calvin, and Word-painting – Anti-Theatricality and the Imagination of Violence – Protestant Martyrdom – «The Calvinesque»: Literary and Dramatic Language – Psalm Translation after the Reformation – Calvinism, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama – The Rhetoric of Prophecy – The Iconography of God’s Punishment: «Braining» – Calvinism and Histories of Violence in Europe: Karen Halttunen, Philip Gorski, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias.

Claudia Richter studied English Literature and Religious Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, and English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh (UK). For her MA thesis, The Aesthetics of Violence in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe, she received the Martin Lehnert Award, which is annually awarded by the German Shakespeare Society. In the past, she has been a lecturer and a researcher at Freie Universität Berlin.

• Contents: Iconoclasm, Calvin, and Word-painting – Anti-Theatricality and the Imagination of Violence – Protestant Martyrdom – «The Calvinesque»: Literary and Dramatic Language – Psalm Translation after the Reformation – Calvinism, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama – The Rhetoric of Prophecy – The Iconography of God’s Punishment: «Braining» – Calvinism and Histories of Violence in Europe: Karen Halttunen, Philip Gorski, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias.

Claudia Richter studied English Literature and Religious Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, and English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh (UK). For her MA thesis, The Aesthetics of Violence in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe, she received the Martin Lehnert Award, which is annually awarded by the German Shakespeare Society. In the past, she has been a lecturer and a researcher at Freie Universität Berlin.

• Contents: Iconoclasm, Calvin, and Word-painting – Anti-Theatricality and the Imagination of Violence – Protestant Martyrdom – «The Calvinesque»: Literary and Dramatic Language – Psalm Translation after the Reformation – Calvinism, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama – The Rhetoric of Prophecy – The Iconography of God’s Punishment: «Braining» – Calvinism and Histories of Violence in Europe: Karen Halttunen, Philip Gorski, Charles Taylor, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias.