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Oxford Hamlets Moment Drama and Political Knowledge in Early Modern England 2018 Edition by András Kiséry
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-to_x000D_imagine what it meant to have a political career. _x000D__x000D_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, and 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_x000D_that enabled the rise of the modern public sphere._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
Introduction: Hamlet's Moment_x000D_
Part I: Hamlet and the Profession of Politics_x000D_
1: 'The Wiser Sort': The Distinction of Politics and Gabriel Harvey's Machiavellian Hamlet_x000D_
2: Some Travellers Return: Diplomatic Writing, Political Careers, and the World of Hamlet_x000D_
3: 'I Lack Advancement': Political Agents and Political Servants in Hamlet's Moment_x000D_
Part II: Political Knowledge and the Public Stage in Hamlet's Moment_x000D_
4: 'Vile and Vulgar Admirations': Chapman and the Public of Political News_x000D_
5: 'The Most Matter with Best Conceyt': The Publics of Tacitean Observation and the Margins of Politics in Jonson's Sejanus_x000D_
6: 'For Discourse's Sake Merely': Political Conversation on the Stage and Off_x000D_
Bibliography_x000D_