Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures.

Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporariesIntelligence and Metadrama in the E

Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern liter

No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, sin