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

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  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2023]

xi, 274 pages

Thèse: Université de Fribourg (Suisse), 2019

William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Christopher Marlowe
Drama
Religion
English 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.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département d'anglais
Language
  • English
Classification
Literature
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Notes
  • Édition de thèse sous le titre : The limits of toleration : religious dissimulation and early modern drama, c. 1590-1614
  • Bibliographie
License
CC BY-NC
Open access status
gold
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/332165
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