1st Edition
Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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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
- Hypocrisy, Dissimulation and Education for Civic Life in Pre-Revolutionary England
- Trading in Gratitude: John Donne’s Verse Epistles to His Patronesses
- Religious Hypocrisy in Performance: Roman Catholicism and The London Stage
- Flattery, Hypocrisy and Identity in Thomas of Woodstock
- "Come buy Lawn Sleeves": Linen and Material Hypocrisy in Milton’s Antiprelatical Tracts
- "Much like the picture of the Devill in a play": hypocrisy and demonic possession
MARKKU PELTONEN
SILVIA BIGLIAZZI
LUCIA NIGRI
ROSSANA M. SEBELLIN
NAYA TSENTOUROU
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.






