Contents
1Religious Dissimulation and Toleration in Early Modern England
2From Oldcastle to Falstaff: The Politics of Martyrdom and Conformity in 1 and 2 Henry IV
3Falstaff Revisited: Puritan Nonconformity and Loyal Dissent in 1 Sir John Oldcastle
4Silence Denied: Sir Thomas More and the Incrimination of Inward Dissent
5Free Speech and Neo-Stoicist Inwardness: The Divided Self in Ben Jonson’s Sejanus His Fall
6Exposing Religious Dissimulation: The Stage Machiavel in Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta
7Semi-conformity, Idolatrous Pollution, and Conversion: The Permeable Self in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair