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Intelligence and metadrama in the early modern theatre / Bill Angus.
LIBRA PR651 .A54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angus, Bill, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Intellect in literature.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Intelligence 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Errant intelligence
- The devil's own
- 'Subtle sleights' : Amity and the informer in Damon and Pithias
- The Parasites of Machiavel
- The Knight of the burning pestle and the menace of the audience
- The reluctant informer : humanising the beast
- Metadrama and the murderous nature of authority
- The burning issue : metadrama and contested authority in Chettle's Hoffman
- Conclusion: No one is there
- ubiquity and invisibility.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474432917
- 1474432913
- OCLC:
- 1039916478
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