Religious dissimulation and early modern drama : the limits of toleration /

"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 theatrical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schindler, Kilian (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:	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 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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.