{"product_id":"inwardness-and-theater-in-the-english-renaissance-0226511243","title":"Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226511243\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Maus, Katharine Eisaman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharine 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 stakeethically, politically, epistemologically, and theologicallywhen 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 tha\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51677906272544,"sku":"NEW0226511243","price":36.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71jpnCZthZL.jpg?v=1779299473","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/inwardness-and-theater-in-the-english-renaissance-0226511243","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}