Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3160-6 (ISBN)
Have you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret overhearing, and tacit observations of early modern drama? Taking on the shadowy figure of the early modern informer, this book argues that far more than mere artistic experimentation is happening here. In case studies of metadramatic plays, and the devices which Shakespeare and Jonson constantly revisit, this book offers critical insight into intrinsic connections between informers and authors, discovering an uneasy sense of common practice at the core of the metadrama, which drives both its self-awareness and its paranoia. Drama is most self-revealing at these moments where it reflects upon its own dramatic register: where it is most metadramatic. To understand their metadrama is therefore to understand these most seminal authors in a new way.
Key Features
Offers a fresh insight into the internal workings and motivations of Shakespeare and Jonson’s dramatic structuresOpens a new window on the ambitions, concerns, and fears of these important authorsEnhances historical understanding of the structures of authority within which the drama was produced, and the place of the informer in those structures
Bill Angus is a Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, New Zealand. He has written extensively on early modern drama and material culture. His books with Edinburgh University Press include Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson (2016), Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre (2018), Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways (2019), co-edited with Lisa Hopkins, and his last monograph, A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture (2022). His latest edited collection Poison on the Early Modern English Stage, co-edited with Kibrina Davey and Lisa Hopkins, was published in 2023.
Introduction Suspect Devices: Metadrama and the Narcissism of Small Differences; 1. Hamlet’s ‘lawful espials’: Metadrama, Tainted Authority, and the Ubiquitous Informer; 2. Every Man In and Out: Metadramatic Ideals and Harsh Realities; 3. Sympathy for the Informer: Iago, Volpone, and Other Metadramatic Authors; 4. ‘Masters both of arts and lies’: Metadrama and the Informer in Poetaster and Sejanus; 5. Falstaff, Hal, Coriolanus: Metadrama and the Authority of Policy; 6. ‘Three Cranes, Mitre, and Mermaid men’: Metadramatic Self-Deprecation and Authority in Bartholomew Fair; 7. ‘Ministers of Fate’: Politic Oversight and Ideal Authorities; 8. Onstage Overviews: Metadrama and the Information Market; Conclusion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.03.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-3160-7 / 1474431607 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-3160-6 / 9781474431606 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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