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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... central to its self-definition as the hub of power. If that was so, the relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re- examined. So Orgel lit the fuse ...
... central to its self-definition as the hub of power. If that was so, the relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re- examined. So Orgel lit the fuse ...
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... central to an interest in Jonson at a time when print is giving way to audio-visual and electronic media as the dominant modes of communication, when various theorists have proclaimed the 'death' of the author, and when critical ...
... central to an interest in Jonson at a time when print is giving way to audio-visual and electronic media as the dominant modes of communication, when various theorists have proclaimed the 'death' of the author, and when critical ...
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... central issue in a variety of historicist studies. It recurs, for example, in all the most recent discussions of city or citizen comedy, a sub-genre which normally includes at least Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Where ...
... central issue in a variety of historicist studies. It recurs, for example, in all the most recent discussions of city or citizen comedy, a sub-genre which normally includes at least Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Where ...
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... central to the renewed interest in Caroline Jonson, and that is reflected here by a Marxist essay on the politics of the late plays.29 Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of ...
... central to the renewed interest in Caroline Jonson, and that is reflected here by a Marxist essay on the politics of the late plays.29 Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of ...
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... the commercial aspects of licensing enables us to grasp two central , related issues in Bartholomew Fair : moral judgment and the play's generic definition as a festive comedy . He opens up the whole argument more widely in Licensed.
... the commercial aspects of licensing enables us to grasp two central , related issues in Bartholomew Fair : moral judgment and the play's generic definition as a festive comedy . He opens up the whole argument more widely in Licensed.
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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