Hamlet's moment : drama and political knowledge in early modern England / András Kiséry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiséry, András, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.

Shakespeare, William.

English drama--17th century--Political aspects.

English drama.

Politics in literature.

Politicians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Hamlet's Moment reveals how plays written in the first decade of the seventeenth century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarized their audiences with them.

Contents:

Cover ; Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England; Copyright ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Abbreviations; Note on Texts; Introduction: Hamlet's Moment; POLITICS ON THE STAGE; POLITICAL COMPETENCE AND DREAMS OF MOBILITY; THE MOMENT; THIS BOOK; PART I: HAMLET AND THE PROFESSION OF POLITICS; 1: 'The Wiser Sort': The Distinction of Politics and Gabriel Harvey's Machiavellian Hamlet; HARVEY'S NOTE; POLITICAL EXPERTISE AND THE LEARNING OF MERE SCHOLARS; POLITIC LEARNING AND MACHIAVELLI; THE WISER SORT

A CHOICE OF TRAGIC SENTENCES: POLITICAL READING AS THE WORK OF DISTINCTIONLUCRECE'S RAPE AND THE TRIAL OF POLITIC DISTINCTION; OPHELIA'S CHASTITY AND THE REASON OF STATE; SORTS OF CHARACTERS; 2: Some Travellers Return: Diplomatic Writing, Political Careers, and the World of Hamlet; HAMLET IN DENMARK; AN ENGLISH AMBASSADOR EXPLORES DENMARK; ENGLISH AMBASSADORS AND VENETIAN RELATIONS; DIPLOMACY AND THE PROFESSION OF POLITICS; TRAVELS, HOPES, AND RELATIONS; SHAKESPEARE'S ELSINORE: THE RIGHTS OF RETURN; 3: 'I Lack Advancement': Political Agents and Political Servants in Hamlet's Moment

POLITICAL HAMLET, 1561POLITICAL HAMLET, 1609; POLEMICAL HAMLET: BELLEFOREST; HAMLET'S SPEECHES AND HORATIO'S SILENCES; INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE: THE FALL OF THE POLONIUS CLAN; HORATIO'S MOMENT; PART II: POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE PUBLIC STAGE IN HAMLET'S MOMENT; 4: 'Vile and Vulgar Admirations': Chapman and the Public of Political News; NEWS; ON STAGES AND BOOKSTALLS; A PUBLIC OF POLITICS AND A SCENE OF EXCHANGE; BETRAYALS; SCANDALOUS RELATIONS; DENIAL, SELF-KNOWLEDGE, AND CURIOSITY

5: 'The Most Matter with Best Conceyt': The Publics of Tacitean Observation and the Margins of Politics in Jonson's SejanusPOLITIC NOTES, POLITIC READERS; THE POLITIC TRAGEDY OF SEIANVS HIS FALL; TO TELL THE TRUTH; THE KNOWLEDGE OF POWER; THE DISTINCTION OF TRAGICAL SATIRE; POPULAR DISSEMINATION; 6: 'For Discourse's Sake Merely': Political Conversation on the Stage and Off; INSIDER TALK AND THE INTERESTS OF CONVERSATION: THE MALCONTENT; TOBACCO AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: MONSIEUR D'OLIVE; VOLPONE AND THE FOOL'S PROFESSION; READING PLAYS FOR DISCOURSE'S SAKE; Bibliography

MANUSCRIPTS AND COPIES OF PRINTED BOOKS WITH MARGINALIAWORKS PRINTED BEFORE 1700; WORKS PRINTED SINCE 1700; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-180881-4

0-19-106324-X