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Disguise Is A Recurring Figure In Many Renaissance Texts. In Its Apparent Intention To Deceive, It Raises Complex Issues Of Identity, Motivation, And The Construction Of Character. Lloyd Davis's Guise And Disguise Examines Disguise As A Rhetorical And Dramatistic Motif In A Wide Range Of Renaissance Texts. Drawing On The Sociological Analyses Of Character In The Work Of Goffmann And Garfinkel As Well As On Recent Historicist Studies Of Renaissance Literature, Davis Argues Against An Essentialist Notion Of Identity. He Posits A Counter-tradition Of Character As Invented, Shaped Guise, A Cultural Process Realized Through Rhetorical And Dramatic Performance. Davis Traces The Conflict Between Idealist And Cultural Notions Of Selfhood From Its Classical Roots To Its Role As A Key Social Concern In The English Renaissance. He Analyses Rhetorical Texts From Wilson, Rainolds, Puttenham, And Sidney; The Political And Social Philosophies Of Machiavelli, Castiglione, Montaigne, Bacon, And Hobbes; The Religious Writings Of Erasmus, Calvin, And Donne; And The Dramatic Works Of Lyly, Shakespeare, Marston, Jonson, And Beaumont And Fletcher. He Sees Issues Of Selfhood And Identity As Central To Th

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Author

Lloyd Davis

Publisher

Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612011849

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction