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

Kiséry, András, author.
2016
PR678.P65 K57 2016eb
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Title
Hamlet's moment [electronic resource] : drama and political knowledge in early modern England / András Kiséry.
Author
Kiséry, András, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191808814 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746201
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746201 doi
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PR678.P65 K57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.3093581
Summary
'Hamlet's Moment' reveals how plays written in the first decade of the 17th century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarised their audiences with them.
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'Hamlet's Moment' reveals how plays written in the first decade of the 17th century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarised their audiences with them.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2016).
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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.

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