title: Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson
author:  Bill Angus 
description: <br />Bill Angus taught at various UK universities before moving to New Zealand in 2013 and lectures mainly in the early modern period. He is currently researching representations of the crossroads as a site with transformative power and a place of spiritual binding and loosing, in early modern and other cultures. This encompasses histories of wandering, place magic, judicial execution, the regulation of burial, religious ritual, and theories of space and liminality.<br />
zlib_text: _And when Elric had told his three lies to Cymoril, his betrothed, and_ _had
  set his ambitious cousin Yyrkoon as Regent on the Ruby Throne of_ _Melniboné,
  and when he had taken leave of Rackhir the Red Archer, he set_ _off into lands
  unknown, to seek knowledge which he believed would help him_ _rule Melniboné
  as she had never been ruled before._
  
  
  _But Elric had not reckoned with a destiny already determining that he_
  _should learn and experience certain things which would have a profound_
  _effect upon him. Even before he encountered the blind captain and the Ship_
  _Which Sailed the Seas of Fate, he was to find his life, his soul and all his_
  _idealism in jeopardy._
  
  
  _In Ufych-Sormeer he was delayed over a matter involving a_ _misunderstanding
  between four unworldly wizards who amiably and_ _inadvertently threatened the
  destruction of the Young Kingdoms before they_ _had served the Balance's
  ultimate purpose; and in Filkhar he experienced_ _an affair of the heart which
  he would never 