Hamlet's Moment: Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780198822264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Andras Kisery

Opis

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.

Recenzje

This is a book that readers will want to ponder carefully, both for its meticulous organization of detail and for its intelligent and judicious critical synthesis of important elements of a current interdisciplinary debate in Early Modern Studies.

O autorze

András Kiséry is Associate Professor of English at The City College of New York (CUNY). He is co-editor of Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature (Manchester University Press, 2013). He has published articles about early modern English literature in the contexts of political culture and the history of the book in European Journal of English Studies, Philological Quarterly, and English Literary History. He is writing a book about the influence of the national and international topographies of the book-trade on the production and reception of early modern English writing called 'Books, Space, and English Literature'.