Andrew Hadfield

Lying in Early Modern English Culture

From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance

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Produktbeschreibung

A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780192844804
• ISBN-10: 0192844806
• Artikelnr.: 61343493

Autorenporträt

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of studies of early modern literature and culture including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), which was awarded the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award; Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion (2021); and Literature and Class from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). He is currently editing the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe for OUP with Joseph Black, Jennifer Richards and Cathy Shrank.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Being Economical with the Truth in Early Modern England
Part One: Lying and the Culture of Oaths
1: The Oath of Supremacy
2: The Oath of Allegiance
Part Two: Modes of Lying in Early Modern England
3: The Religious Culture of Lying
4: Rhetoric, Commonplacing, Poetics
5: Courtesy, Lying, and Politics
6: Testimony
7: Othello and the Culture of Lies between Conscience and Reputation