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Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
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Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance Hardcover - 1995 - 1st Edition

by Katharine Eisaman Maus


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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.

Details

  • Title Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance
  • Author Katharine Eisaman Maus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 1995-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226511238 / 0226511235
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.87 x 0.74 in (22.40 x 14.91 x 1.88 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects English drama - Early modern and, Reality in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94043099
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792