...The devices of metadrama allow the theatre to reflect upon itself in a way which reveals the preoccupations of writers, and it is a curious fact that the proliferation of metadramatic structures in the early modern theatre coincides with an increasing sense of the ubiquity of the informer...

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... Metadrama Duchess of Malfi Bosola Machiavellian Acting Informing Authorities Even more than Shakespeare’s Iago, John Webster’s Bosola seems to represent the early modern theatre’s quintessential combination of actor and intelligencer. His self-consciously Machiavellian role in The Duchess...

...Since early modern debate about the legitimacy of theatre concerns the question of the author’s authority in relation to that of the licensing authorities, and their informers, the fear of misinterpretation generates a self-conscious metadrama which expresses the ambiguity of authority in dramatic...

...In Chettle’s The Tragedy of Hoffman, authority is in flux again and here metadrama bites both ways as its usurping and informing metadramatic actors are punished by hidden audiences. Although the play’s metadramatic structure initially facilitates the active power of the vengeful...

...The introduction firstly identifies the defining characteristics, important contexts, and devices of early modern metadrama; it then elaborates on popular conceptions of the informer-figure, and explores connections between them. Using significant examples, including from such coney-catching...

...Intelligence and in the Early Modern Theatre explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. It offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures. Analysing both the nature...

...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...

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