Download or read book The Idolatrous Eye written by Michael O'Connell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael O'Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theatre was attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism targeted the traditional mystery plays. The text aims to explain what this meant for the secular theatre that followed.