Dr. Bill Angus, School of English and Media Studies at Massey University. Photo: supplied
Even today, surveillance is a provocative topic and we tend to think about cameras or cyber-spying, but a new book exposes just how prevalent spies and informers were in Shakespeare's time - both in his plays and indeed everyday life.
Dr. Bill Angus, a lecturer at Massey University's School of English and Media Studies has been exploring the role of spies and informers in the scripts and society of the Bard and his contemporaries in his new book, Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson.
