Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Errant Intelligence – The Devil’s Own
- 1 ‘Subtle sleights’: Amity and the Informer in Damon and Pithias
- 2 The Parasites of Machiavel
- 3 The Knight of the Burning Pestle and the Menace of the Audience
- 4 The Reluctant Informer: Humanising the Beast
- 5 Metadrama and the Murderous Nature of Authority
- 6 The Burning Issue: Metadrama and Contested Authority in Chettle’s Hoffman
- Conclusion: No One Is There – Ubiquity and Invisibility
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Errant Intelligence – The Devil’s Own
- 1 ‘Subtle sleights’: Amity and the Informer in Damon and Pithias
- 2 The Parasites of Machiavel
- 3 The Knight of the Burning Pestle and the Menace of the Audience
- 4 The Reluctant Informer: Humanising the Beast
- 5 Metadrama and the Murderous Nature of Authority
- 6 The Burning Issue: Metadrama and Contested Authority in Chettle’s Hoffman
- Conclusion: No One Is There – Ubiquity and Invisibility
- Index
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- Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre , pp. 182 - 186Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2018