Ben JonsonRoutledge, 21/07/2014 - 232 páginas Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death. This new collection offers detailed readings of all the major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides significant insights into the court masques and the later plays which have only recently been rediscovered as genuinely engaging stage pieces. |
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... authority, not least the moral authority of the poet himself: Bartholomew Fair is a text for the late twentieth century. It has become (with King Lear) the archetypal early modern text, the keyhole through which we look back to the ...
... authority, not least the moral authority of the poet himself: Bartholomew Fair is a text for the late twentieth century. It has become (with King Lear) the archetypal early modern text, the keyhole through which we look back to the ...
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... authority into the absolutist mind - set of James I himself , arguing ( from a totalising post- Foucauldian , post - structuralist perspective on power ) that the literature of the period implicitly configures itself to that agenda and ...
... authority into the absolutist mind - set of James I himself , arguing ( from a totalising post- Foucauldian , post - structuralist perspective on power ) that the literature of the period implicitly configures itself to that agenda and ...
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... authority . Yet recent considerations of these matters ( for example , the biographies mentioned earlier , especially that by Riggs ) have shown how provisional and fraught it all was at the time , how deeply implicated in changing ...
... authority . Yet recent considerations of these matters ( for example , the biographies mentioned earlier , especially that by Riggs ) have shown how provisional and fraught it all was at the time , how deeply implicated in changing ...
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... authority , or does he rather insist ( in a formulation most persuasively argued by Peter Burke ) that carnival is and should be seen as a safety valve , consciously stage - managed by Renaissance authorities for their subjects in order ...
... authority , or does he rather insist ( in a formulation most persuasively argued by Peter Burke ) that carnival is and should be seen as a safety valve , consciously stage - managed by Renaissance authorities for their subjects in order ...
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... authority . This has been addressed by a number of critics who have not followed the Bakhtinian formulation . Leah Marcus , in a Marxist reading , locates the play in the context of the Stuart monarchy's self - serving defence of the ...
... authority . This has been addressed by a number of critics who have not followed the Bakhtinian formulation . Leah Marcus , in a Marxist reading , locates the play in the context of the Stuart monarchy's self - serving defence of the ...
Índice
Introduction | |
An Alternative View 3 JOHN G SWEENEY III Sejanus and the Peoples Beastly Rage 4 JONATHAN GOLDBERG State Secrets 5 STANLEY FISH A... | |
Volpone 7 MARY BETH ROSE The Expense of Spirit | |
CHERYL LYNN Ross The Plague of The Alchemist | |
JONATHAN HAYNES Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonsons Bartholomew Fair | |
MARTIN BUTLER Late Jonson | |
Further Reading | |
Index | |
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