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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Cover ; Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England; Copyright ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Abbreviations; Note on Texts; Introduction: Hamlet's Moment; POLITICS ON THE STAGE; POLITICAL COMPETENCE AND DREAMS OF MOBILITY; THE MOMENT; THIS BOOK; PART I: HAMLET AND THE PROFESSION OF POLITICS; 1: 'The Wiser Sort': The Distinction of Politics and Gabriel Harvey's Machiavellian Hamlet; HARVEY'S NOTE; POLITICAL EXPERTISE AND THE LEARNING OF MERE SCHOLARS; POLITIC LEARNING AND MACHIAVELLI; THE WISER SORT |
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A CHOICE OF TRAGIC SENTENCES: POLITICAL READING AS THE WORK OF DISTINCTIONLUCRECE'S RAPE AND THE TRIAL OF POLITIC DISTINCTION; OPHELIA'S CHASTITY AND THE REASON OF STATE; SORTS OF CHARACTERS; 2: Some Travellers Return: Diplomatic Writing, Political Careers, and the World of Hamlet; HAMLET IN DENMARK; AN ENGLISH AMBASSADOR EXPLORES DENMARK; ENGLISH AMBASSADORS AND VENETIAN RELATIONS; DIPLOMACY AND THE PROFESSION OF POLITICS; TRAVELS, HOPES, AND RELATIONS; SHAKESPEARE'S ELSINORE: THE RIGHTS OF RETURN; 3: 'I Lack Advancement': Political Agents and Political Servants in Hamlet's Moment |
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POLITICAL HAMLET, 1561POLITICAL HAMLET, 1609; POLEMICAL HAMLET: BELLEFOREST; HAMLET'S SPEECHES AND HORATIO'S SILENCES; INDEPENDENCE AND DEPENDENCE: THE FALL OF THE POLONIUS CLAN; HORATIO'S MOMENT; PART II: POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE PUBLIC STAGE IN HAMLET'S MOMENT; 4: 'Vile and Vulgar Admirations': Chapman and the Public of Political News; NEWS; ON STAGES AND BOOKSTALLS; A PUBLIC OF POLITICS AND A SCENE OF EXCHANGE; BETRAYALS; SCANDALOUS RELATIONS; DENIAL, SELF-KNOWLEDGE, AND CURIOSITY |
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5: 'The Most Matter with Best Conceyt': The Publics of Tacitean Observation and the Margins of Politics in Jonson's SejanusPOLITIC NOTES, POLITIC READERS; THE POLITIC TRAGEDY OF SEIANVS HIS FALL; TO TELL THE TRUTH; THE KNOWLEDGE OF POWER; THE DISTINCTION OF TRAGICAL SATIRE; POPULAR DISSEMINATION; 6: 'For Discourse's Sake Merely': Political Conversation on the Stage and Off; INSIDER TALK AND THE INTERESTS OF CONVERSATION: THE MALCONTENT; TOBACCO AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS: MONSIEUR D'OLIVE; VOLPONE AND THE FOOL'S PROFESSION; READING PLAYS FOR DISCOURSE'S SAKE; Bibliography |
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MANUSCRIPTS AND COPIES OF PRINTED BOOKS WITH MARGINALIAWORKS PRINTED BEFORE 1700; WORKS PRINTED SINCE 1700; Index |
| 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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2016) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Hamlet.
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| SUBJECT |
Hamlet (Shakespeare, William) fast |
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English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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English drama -- 17th century -- Political aspects
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English drama
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Politics and literature
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Great Britain
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191808814 |
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0191808814 |
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9780191063244 |
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019106324X |
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