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This text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.

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Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: Inwardness and Spectatorship 2: Machiavels and Family Men 3: Heretical Conscience and Theatrical Rhetoric: The Case of Christopher Marlowe 4: Proof and Consequences: Othello and the Crime of Intention 5: Prosecution and Sexual Secrecy: Jonson and Shakespeare 6: A Womb of His Own: Male Renaissance Poets in the Female Body 7: Conclusion Index

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226511238, 978-0226511238
      ISBN10: 0226511235
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This text explores the perceived discrepancy between outward appearance and inward disposition which, it argues, influenced the work of many English Renaissance dramatists and poets. The author examines various connections between religious, legal, sexual and theatrical ideas of inward truth.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: Inwardness and Spectatorship 2: Machiavels and Family Men 3: Heretical Conscience and Theatrical Rhetoric: The Case of Christopher Marlowe 4: Proof and Consequences: Othello and the Crime of Intention 5: Prosecution and Sexual Secrecy: Jonson and Shakespeare 6: A Womb of His Own: Male Renaissance Poets in the Female Body 7: Conclusion Index

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