Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers
revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and Jonson 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 structures Opens a
new window on the ambitions, concerns, and fears of these important
authors Enhances 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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