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Title: Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
Author: Katharine Eisaman Maus
ISBN: 9780226511245
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 232
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Katharine Eisaman Maus explores Renaissance writers’ uneasy preoccupation with the inwardness and invisibility of truth. The perceived discrepancy between a person’s outward appearance and inward disposition, she argues, deeply influenced the ways English Renaissance dramatists and poets conceived of the theater, imagined dramatic characters, and reflected upon their own creativity. Reading works by Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Milton in conjuction with sectarian polemics, gynecological treatises, and accounts of criminal prosecutions, Maus 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. Challenging the recent tendency to see early modern selfhood as defined in wholly public terms, Maus argues that Renaissance dramatists continually payed homage to aspects of inner life they felt could never be manifested onstage.
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