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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schindler, Kilian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Identification (Religion) in literature.

Faith in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Examining how playwrights from Shakespeare to Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage, Kilian Schindler argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9781009226325

1009226320

9781009226332

1009226339

9781009226295

1009226290

Access Restriction:

Open access. Unrestricted online access.