Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance by Katharine Eisaman Maus

Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance by Katharine Eisaman Maus

This text explores the preoccupation of many Renaissance writers' with the inwardness and invisibility of truth. The perceived discrepancy between a person's outward appearance and inward disposition, it argues, influenced the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists and poets conceived the theatre, imagined dramatic characters and reflected upon their own creativity. Reading works by Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton in conjuction with sectarian polemics, gynaecological treatises and accounts of criminal prosecutions, the author delineates unexplored connections among religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth. She reveals what was at stake ethically, politically, epistemologically and theologically when a writer in early modern England appealed to the difference between external show and interior authenticity.

Elizabeth D. is a writer who lives in New York City Harvey teaches English at the University of Western Ontario as an assistant professor. Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind is written by Katharine Eisaman Maus, an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9780226511245
ISBN 10	0226511243
Title	Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Author	Katharine Eisaman Maus
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	1995-06-01
Number of pages	232
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