Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson

Bill Angus

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Renaissance Literature and Culture Theatre and Performance Studies Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

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This book explores the metadramatic plays and devices of Shakespeare and Jonson and finds at the core of their metadrama some disturbing connections, and even an uneasy sense of common practice, between authors and the shadowy figure of the informer. It offers insight into the internal workings and motivations of Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s dramatic structures and opens a new window on their ambitions, concerns and fears. In doing so, it enhances our historical understanding of the structures of authority and society within which the drama was produced, and the place of the informer in those structures.

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