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The first cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage. Discussing over forty dramatic pieces, the book introduces little known conversion plays and offers fresh readings of canonical drama, including Shakespeare's Othello, to reveal telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.

The religious upheavals of the early modern period and the fierce debate they unleashed about true devotion gave conversion an unprecedented urgency. With their rich variety of emotive, aesthetic and rhetoric means of expression, literature and the visual arts proved particularly well-adapted means to address, explore and represent the complex nature of conversion. At the same time, many artists and authors experimented with the notion that the expressive character of their work could cultivate a sensory experience for the viewer that enacted conversion. Indeed, focusing on conversion as one...