Religious dissimulation and early modern drama the limits of toleration Schindler, Kilian creator author. Cambridge University Press text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) "Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full toleration, Schindler demonstrates its ubiquity and urgency in early modern culture. By reconstructing the ideological undercurrents that inform both religious dissimulation and theatricality as a form of dissimulation, this book makes a case for the centrality of dissimulation in the religious politics of early modern drama. Lucid and original, this study is an important contribution to the understanding of early modern religious and literary culture"-- Religious dissimulation and toleration in early modern England -- From Oldcastle to Falstaff : the politics of martyrdom and conformity in 1 and 2 Henry IV -- Falstaff revisited : Puritan nonconformity and loyal dissent in 1 Sir John Oldcastle -- Silence denied : Sir Thomas More and the incrimination of inward dissent -- Free speech and neo-stoicist inwardness : the divided self in Ben Jonson's Sejanus his fall -- Exposing religious dissimulation : the stage Machiavel in Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta -- Semi-conformity, idolatrous pollution, and conversion : the permeable self in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair. Kilian Schindler. Includes bibliographical references and index. English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism Religion in literature Secrecy in literature Théâtre anglais 16e siècle Histoire et critique Religion dans la littérature Secret dans la littérature English drama Early modern and Elizabethan Religion in literature Secrecy in literature 1500-1600 fast PR658.R43 S35 2023 822/.309382 Religious dissimulation and early modern drama Schindler, Kilian. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 (DLC) 2023017685 9781009226295 1009226290 9781009226318 2023017686 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009226295 DLC 230416 20240206232408.5 in00004771670 eng