Hamlet's Moment
Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 March 2016
- ISBN 9780198746201
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 240x162x25 mm
- Weight 686 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Hamlet's Moment reveals how plays written in the first decade of the seventeenth century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarized their audiences with them.
MoreLong description:
Hamlet's Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the moment when the business of politics became a matter of dramatic representation. Drama turned from open, military conflict to diplomacy and court policy, from the public contestation of power to the technologies of government. Tragedies of state turned into tragedies of state servants, inviting the public to consider politics as a profession and to imagine what it meant to have a political career.
By staging intelligence derived from diplomatic sources, and by inflecting the action and discourse of their plays with a Machiavellian style of political analysis, playwrights such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Chapman, Marston transformed political knowledge into a more broadly useful type of cultural capital, something even people without political agency could deploy in conversation and use in claiming social distinction. In Hamlet's moment, the public stage created the political competence that enabled the rise of the modern public sphere.
The first half of the book offers a new analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the lens of its use of political knowledge, while the second half broadens the scope of discussion by exploring the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
A particularly appealing feature of Kiséry's writing is his generous sign posting and cross-referencing, which skillfully guide the readers' attention to subtle details and connections. Despite the occasional lengthy sentences, Kiséry's book is written in a lively, often entertaining, sometimes even ironic, but always lucid academic prose. ... For anyone who is interested in early modern political thought and practice, print and manuscript culture, and, above all, drama, it is worth following Kiséry on his journey with these ambassadors.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 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
Part 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': 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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