Bill Angus

Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporariesIntelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures. Analysing both the nature of intelligence at the time and the metadrama that such characters generate, Angus highlights the significance of intrigue and corruption to dramatic narrative and structure. His study of metadrama reveals some of the most fundamental questions being posed about the legitimacy of authority, authorship and audience interpretation in this seminal era of English drama.Key FeaturesOffers insight into the internal workings and motivations of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporariesOpens a new window on the ambitions, concerns, and fears of these important authorsEnhances historical understanding of the place of the intelligencer in the society and the structures of authority within which the drama was produced

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474432948
• Artikelnr.: 72420517

Autorenporträt

Bill teaches at Massey University in New Zealand. His research is mainly in Shakespeare and the early modern period. He is currently exploring representations of the crossroads a place of transformative power and spiritual binding, in early modern and other cultures. This encompasses histories of wandering, place magic, judicial execution, the regulation of burial, and theories of space and liminality.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Errant Intelligence: The Devil's Own
1. 'Subtle sleights': Amity and the Informer in Damon and Pithias
2. The Parasites of Machiavel
3. The Knight of the Burning Pestle and the Menace of the Audience
4. The Reluctant Informer: Humanising the Beast
5. Metadrama and the Murderous Nature of Authority
6. The Burning Issue: Metadrama and Contested Authority in Chettle's Hoffman
Conclusion: No-one Is There: Ubiquity and Invisibility
Index.