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Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson / Bill Angus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474415118
  • 9781474415125
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 822/.309 23
LOC classification:
  • PR2976 .A654 2016
  • PR2976 .A54 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Suspect Devices - Metadrama and the Narcissism of Small Differences -- Chapter 1. Hamlet's 'lawful espials': Metadrama, Tainted Authority and the Ubiquitous Informer -- Chapter 2. Every Man In and Out: Metadramatic Ideals and Harsh Realities -- Chapter 3. Sympathy for the Informer: Iago, Volpone and Other Metadramatic Authors -- Chapter 4. 'Masters both of arts and lies': Metadrama and the Informer in Poetaster and Sejanus -- Chapter 5. Falstaff, Hal, Coriolanus: Metadrama and the Authority of Policy -- Chapter 6. 'Three Cranes, Mitre, and Mermaid men': Metadramatic Self-Deprecation and Authority in Bartholomew Fair -- Chapter 7. 'Ministers of Fate': Politic Oversight and Ideal Authorities -- Chapter 8. Onstage Overviews: Metadrama and the Information Market -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and JonsonHave 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 FeaturesOffers 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
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Suspect Devices - Metadrama and the Narcissism of Small Differences -- Chapter 1. Hamlet's 'lawful espials': Metadrama, Tainted Authority and the Ubiquitous Informer -- Chapter 2. Every Man In and Out: Metadramatic Ideals and Harsh Realities -- Chapter 3. Sympathy for the Informer: Iago, Volpone and Other Metadramatic Authors -- Chapter 4. 'Masters both of arts and lies': Metadrama and the Informer in Poetaster and Sejanus -- Chapter 5. Falstaff, Hal, Coriolanus: Metadrama and the Authority of Policy -- Chapter 6. 'Three Cranes, Mitre, and Mermaid men': Metadramatic Self-Deprecation and Authority in Bartholomew Fair -- Chapter 7. 'Ministers of Fate': Politic Oversight and Ideal Authorities -- Chapter 8. Onstage Overviews: Metadrama and the Information Market -- Conclusion -- Index

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Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and JonsonHave 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 FeaturesOffers 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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)