Kilian Schindler

Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama (eBook, PDF)

The Limits of Toleration

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009226332
• Artikelnr.: 70911986

Autorenporträt

Kilian Schindler teaches early modern English Literature at the University of Fribourg. His dissertation on religious dissimulation in early modern drama (2019) was awarded the Martin Lehnert prize of the German Shakespeare Foundation. He is co-editor of a critical edition of Sebastian Castellio's De haereticis an sint persequendi (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Religious dissimulation and toleration in early modern
England; 2. From Oldcastle to Falstaff: the politics of martyrdom and
conformity in 1 and 2 Henry IV; 3. Falstaff revisited: Puritan
nonconformity and loyal dissent in 1 Sir John Oldcastle; 4. Silence denied:
Sir Thomas More and the incrimination of inward dissent; 5. Free speech and
neo-stoicist inwardness: the divided delf in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall;
6. Exposing religious dissimulation: the stage Machiavel in Christopher
Marlowe's The Jew of Malta; 7. Semi-conformity, idolatrous pollution, and
conversion: the permeable self in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fair;
Conclusion.