1st Edition

Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England

Edited By Lucia Nigri, Naya Tsentourou Copyright 2018
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political, and social circles in England during the years after the Reformation and up to the Restoration. Bringing together current critical work on early modern subjectivity, performance, print history, and private and public identities and space, the collection provides readers with a way into the... Read more

Table of Contents



Introduction



Lucia Nigri and Naya Tsentou









  1. Hypocrisy, Dissimulation and Education for Civic Life in Pre-Revolutionary England




  2. MARKKU PELTONEN





  3. Trading in Gratitude: John Donne’s Verse Epistles to His Patronesses




  4. SILVIA BIGLIAZZI





  5. Religious Hypocrisy in Performance: Roman Catholicism and The London Stage




  6. LUCIA NIGRI





  7. Flattery, Hypocrisy and Identity in Thomas of Woodstock




  8. ROSSANA M. SEBELLIN





  9. "Come buy Lawn Sleeves": Linen and Material Hypocrisy in Milton’s Antiprelatical Tracts




  10. NAYA TSENTOUROU





  11. "Much like the picture of the Devill in a play": hypocrisy and demonic possession




  12. JACQUELINE PEARSON

Biography

Lucia Nigri is Lecturer of Early Modern English Literature at the University of Salford, Manchester.



 



Naya Tsentourou is Lecturer in Early Modern English at the University of Exeter.