Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre / / Bill Angus.
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 natur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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