Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance

by Katharine Eisaman Maus

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226511243
• ISBN13: 9780226511245
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.6"