Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of studies of early modern literature and culture including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), which was awarded the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award; Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion (2021); and Literature and Class from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). He is currently editing the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe for OUP with Joseph Black, Jennifer Richards and Cathy Shrank.

Hadfield's volume is excellent in its breadth of sources (both familiar and more recondite) and in its detailed methods of contextualization. ...this book will endure as a major piece of scholarship and an important authority on lying for any scholars interestedin early modern politics, rhetoric, and religion.

• Introduction: Being Economical with the Truth in Early Modern England Part One: Lying and the Culture of Oaths 1: The Oath of Supremacy 2: The Oath of Allegiance Part Two: Modes of Lying in Early Modern England 3: The Religious Culture of Lying 4: Rhetoric, Commonplacing, Poetics 5: Courtesy, Lying, and Politics 6: Testimony 7: Othello and the Culture of Lies between Conscience and Reputation

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of studies of early modern literature and culture including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), which was awarded the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award; Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion (2021); and Literature and Class from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). He is currently editing the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe for OUP with Joseph Black, Jennifer Richards and Cathy Shrank.

Hadfield's volume is excellent in its breadth of sources (both familiar and more recondite) and in its detailed methods of contextualization. ...this book will endure as a major piece of scholarship and an important authority on lying for any scholars interestedin early modern politics, rhetoric, and religion.

• Introduction: Being Economical with the Truth in Early Modern England Part One: Lying and the Culture of Oaths 1: The Oath of Supremacy 2: The Oath of Allegiance Part Two: Modes of Lying in Early Modern England 3: The Religious Culture of Lying 4: Rhetoric, Commonplacing, Poetics 5: Courtesy, Lying, and Politics 6: Testimony 7: Othello and the Culture of Lies between Conscience and Reputation

Andrew Hadfield is Professor of English at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor at the University of Granada. He is the author of a number of studies of early modern literature and culture including Edmund Spenser: A Life (2012), which was awarded the Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award; Shakespeare and Republicanism (2005), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature; John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion (2021); and Literature and Class from the Peasants' Revolt to the French Revolution (2021). He is currently editing the Complete Works of Thomas Nashe for OUP with Joseph Black, Jennifer Richards and Cathy Shrank.

Hadfield's volume is excellent in its breadth of sources (both familiar and more recondite) and in its detailed methods of contextualization. ...this book will endure as a major piece of scholarship and an important authority on lying for any scholars interestedin early modern politics, rhetoric, and religion.

• Introduction: Being Economical with the Truth in Early Modern England Part One: Lying and the Culture of Oaths 1: The Oath of Supremacy 2: The Oath of Allegiance Part Two: Modes of Lying in Early Modern England 3: The Religious Culture of Lying 4: Rhetoric, Commonplacing, Poetics 5: Courtesy, Lying, and Politics 6: Testimony 7: Othello and the Culture of Lies between Conscience and Reputation