Bill Angus
Biographic Data
| ID | 3878272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Angus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Angus |
| SIGNATURE | ANGUS B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Your Innes and Alehouses Are Brookes and Rivers’: John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale
‘Your Innes and Alehouses Are Brookes and Rivers’: John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale
Despite assaults on his character arising from religious questions, John Taylor the self-styled ‘water-poet’, contemporary of Shakespeare and friend of Ben Jonson, seems to have been regarded in most respects as an upstanding citizen. On one count, however, Taylor leaves himself open to easy criticism from his would-be detractors: he spent what some thought to be an inordinate amount of energy in the praise, promotion and partaking of the benefit…
Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain
Covering a variety of authors and genres, this edited collection examines the ways in which rivers and their resonances inform early modern British identity and culture. Individual chapters reflect on the ways rivers are employed as sites of spectacle and performance and account for the cultural reverberations of literary representations of specific rivers such as the Trent and the Thames. Topics treated range from the soteriological meaning of r…
Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain
Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare’s Britain Showcases new research on rivers and their cultural representation in the early modern period Covers a range of writers from Shakespeare to Izaak Walton, devotional writing, and poems and plays about the Fens, the Trent, and the Thames Helps us understand how environmental collapse begins In Shakespeare’s Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel a…
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
A History of Crossroads deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads: its magical and religious encounters, rituals of transformation, binding of undesirable spirits, siting of gallows, associations with music, and links to ancient cosmology. Throughout history, physical crossroads have been culturally vital sites where forces human, demonic and divine were felt to converge. In many places and times, crossroads have seemed to …
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
Tracks the history of concepts and practices associated with the physical crossroads in the early modern period Breaks new ground in the area of literary geography and enhances the historical understanding of the place of the crossroads in literary and cultural discourse Unifies various discourses of early modern culture and subjectivity in terms of the experience and understanding of the crossroads Locates issues around the ideology and experien…
History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
Terminus: The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake
This chapter explores the nature, popularity, and cultural resonances of the long practice of outcast burial at crossroads, whose liminal status meant they were considered appropriate places to leave materials expelled from society. These were often the worst of criminals, the murderers and traitors. But since the unfortunate victims of suicide were regarded as a species of criminal in the early modern period, they were also buried at the crossro…
Protection: The X in the Landscape
This chapter makes a case that the very shape of the crossroads accords with the symbolism of intersecting lines most often used for the binding or banning of evil forces. It considers the concept and practice of spiritual binding through a variety of early modern examples of apotropaic devices wrought to protect the domestic space and takes into account the traditions of the precise movements of spirits. It suggests that the reason the crossroad…
History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways
This collection of essays examines the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. It explores the place of the road in the early modern imagination and so opens windows on a geography which is central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially …
Going down to the crossroads: Popular Music and Transformative Magic
If there is a single narrative that captures the modern understanding of transformative crossroads magic it is the spurious fable of the selling of Robert Johnson's soul. When, in the palaeoanthropology of 20thcentury rock and roll music, the biographers of the short-lived blues legend claimed that he had been down to the Dockery Plantation crossroads at midnight to sell his soul to the Devil in exchange for guitar skills, they were perhaps unwit…
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways
Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern BritainOpens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private spaceEnhance…
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways
Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road
Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson
Conclusion
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‘Masters both of arts and lies’: Metadrama and the Informer in Poetaster and Sejanus
This chapter explores Jonson’s metadramatic technique in Sejanus and Poetaster and its staging of the legitimacy of poetic and political authority. The informer lurks in the metadramatic shadows here, as a significant element within both Jonson’s critique of compromised authority in Sejanus, and the implications he makes in Poetaster , about his artistic enemies. In both cases their authority is tainted by the connection, going beyond simply blam…
Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson
Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and Jonson. Have you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret overhearing, and tacit observations of early modern drama? Taking on the shadowy figure of the early modern informer, this book argues that far more than mere artistic experimentation is happening here. In case studies of metadramatic plays, and the devices wh…
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Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson
Conclusion
and Keywords to be supplied.
‘Masters both of arts and lies’: Metadrama and the Informer in Poetaster and Sejanus
This chapter explores Jonson’s metadramatic technique in Sejanus and Poetaster and its staging of the legitimacy of poetic and political authority. The informer lurks in the metadramatic shadows here, as a significant element within both Jonson’s critique of compromised authority in Sejanus, and the implications he makes in Poetaster , about his artistic enemies. In both cases their authority is tainted by the connection, going beyond simply blam…
Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson
Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and Jonson. Have you ever wondered what was really going on in the inner-plays, secret overhearing, and tacit observations of early modern drama? Taking on the shadowy figure of the early modern informer, this book argues that far more than mere artistic experimentation is happening here. In case studies of metadramatic plays, and the devices wh…
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare’s Crossways to Bunyan’s Highways
Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern BritainOpens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private spaceEnhance…
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways
Introduction: Allegories, Economies and Resonances of the Road
Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways
This collection of essays examines the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. It explores the place of the road in the early modern imagination and so opens windows on a geography which is central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially …
Going down to the crossroads: Popular Music and Transformative Magic
If there is a single narrative that captures the modern understanding of transformative crossroads magic it is the spurious fable of the selling of Robert Johnson's soul. When, in the palaeoanthropology of 20thcentury rock and roll music, the biographers of the short-lived blues legend claimed that he had been down to the Dockery Plantation crossroads at midnight to sell his soul to the Devil in exchange for guitar skills, they were perhaps unwit…
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
A History of Crossroads deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads: its magical and religious encounters, rituals of transformation, binding of undesirable spirits, siting of gallows, associations with music, and links to ancient cosmology. Throughout history, physical crossroads have been culturally vital sites where forces human, demonic and divine were felt to converge. In many places and times, crossroads have seemed to …
A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
Tracks the history of concepts and practices associated with the physical crossroads in the early modern period Breaks new ground in the area of literary geography and enhances the historical understanding of the place of the crossroads in literary and cultural discourse Unifies various discourses of early modern culture and subjectivity in terms of the experience and understanding of the crossroads Locates issues around the ideology and experien…
History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
Terminus: The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake
This chapter explores the nature, popularity, and cultural resonances of the long practice of outcast burial at crossroads, whose liminal status meant they were considered appropriate places to leave materials expelled from society. These were often the worst of criminals, the murderers and traitors. But since the unfortunate victims of suicide were regarded as a species of criminal in the early modern period, they were also buried at the crossro…
Protection: The X in the Landscape
This chapter makes a case that the very shape of the crossroads accords with the symbolism of intersecting lines most often used for the binding or banning of evil forces. It considers the concept and practice of spiritual binding through a variety of early modern examples of apotropaic devices wrought to protect the domestic space and takes into account the traditions of the precise movements of spirits. It suggests that the reason the crossroad…
History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture
‘Your Innes and Alehouses Are Brookes and Rivers’: John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale
‘Your Innes and Alehouses Are Brookes and Rivers’: John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale
Despite assaults on his character arising from religious questions, John Taylor the self-styled ‘water-poet’, contemporary of Shakespeare and friend of Ben Jonson, seems to have been regarded in most respects as an upstanding citizen. On one count, however, Taylor leaves himself open to easy criticism from his would-be detractors: he spent what some thought to be an inordinate amount of energy in the praise, promotion and partaking of the benefit…
Reading the River in Shakespeare's Britain
Covering a variety of authors and genres, this edited collection examines the ways in which rivers and their resonances inform early modern British identity and culture. Individual chapters reflect on the ways rivers are employed as sites of spectacle and performance and account for the cultural reverberations of literary representations of specific rivers such as the Trent and the Thames. Topics treated range from the soteriological meaning of r…
Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain
Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare’s Britain Showcases new research on rivers and their cultural representation in the early modern period Covers a range of writers from Shakespeare to Izaak Walton, devotional writing, and poems and plays about the Fens, the Trent, and the Thames Helps us understand how environmental collapse begins In Shakespeare’s Britain rivers were not only a crucial form of travel a…
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