Shakespeare'S Secret Schemers: The Study of an Early Modern Dramatic Device

The secret scheming of the title is scheming formulated and executed by characters who never disclose it, either to the audience or to other characters and which goes unremarked within the plays. Secret scheming is also consistent with the second of two opposing assumptions about the underlying nature of the drama: the first is that the drama tends to support the Tudor Stuart establishment by containing subversion; the second is that the drama represents and takes part in a process of negotiated power in societyRichard A. Levin is the author of 'Shakespeare'S Secret Schemers: The Study of an Early Modern Dramatic Device', published 2001 under ISBN 9780874137378 and ISBN 0874137373.