Hamlet's moment : drama and political knowledge in early modern England /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Hamlet's moment
- I. Hamlet and the profession of politics. 'The wiser sort' : the distinction of politics and Gabriel Harvey's Machiavellian Hamlet ; Some travellers return : diplomatic writing, political careers, and the world of Hamlet ; 'I lack advancement' : political agents and political servants in Hamlet's moment
- II. Political knowledge and the public stage in Hamlet's moment. 'Vile and vulgar admirations' : Chapman and the public of political news ; 'The most matter with best conceyt' : the publics of Tacitean observation and the margins of politics in Jonson's Sejanus ; 'For discourse's sake merely' : political conversation on the stage and off.