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Chapter 6 - Exposing Religious Dissimulation
Kilian Schindler, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
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Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama

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31 August 2023

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28 September 2023, pp 160-188
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This chapter contextualises the rise of the stage Machiavel in the suppression of the Elizabethan Puritan movement in the late 1580s and early 1590s and the period’s distrust in the hidden, inward self of religious dissenters. The stage Machiavel of the early 1590s, most prominently embodied by Barabas in Christopher Marlowe’s Jew of Malta, bears traces of anti-Puritan polemics that have been mostly overlooked so far. Hence, the stage Machiavel can be read as a predecessor of the stage Puritan and as a theatrical convention, most notably in his typical revelation of his plans to the audience, which showcases the theatre as an institution that grants access, or rather a fantasy of access, to the inward secrets of religious dissenters. Marlowe’s Jew of Malta can be read as an expression of such a desire to make windows into men’s hearts and as a poetological statement that flaunts the complicity of the theatre in this enterprise.

122 - Edward Alleyn and Philip Henslowe
from Part XIII - Shakespeare’s Fellows
- By Susan P. Cerasano
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 928-934
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21 - The Prehistory of Shakespearean Theater
from Part II - Theater
- By Janette Dillon
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 141-148
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Part XIII - Shakespeare’s Fellows
- By Stanley Wells
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 871-972
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Part II - Theater
- By Andrew Gurr
Edited by Bruce R. Smith, University of Southern California
Edited in association with Katherine Rowe, Smith College, Massachusetts
With Ton Hoenselaars, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Aimara da Cunha Resende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare

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17 August 2019

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21 January 2016, pp 67-160
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