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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... course , be very different from the uses and purposes for which it was written ) , and ruthlessly disregarding the rest . So it was with Jonson . The century following his death ( 1637 ) was one in which Britain asserted itself as a ...
... course , be very different from the uses and purposes for which it was written ) , and ruthlessly disregarding the rest . So it was with Jonson . The century following his death ( 1637 ) was one in which Britain asserted itself as a ...
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... course , some of Jonson's comedies - Every Man In His Humour , Volpone and The Alchemist – never fell entirely out of favour , and were performed ( often in altered forms ) throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; David ...
... course , some of Jonson's comedies - Every Man In His Humour , Volpone and The Alchemist – never fell entirely out of favour , and were performed ( often in altered forms ) throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; David ...
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... course unthinkable that the new despotism of Tudors and Stuarts should not have exploited and enriched the old correspondence ' [ between a monarch and the sun ] but explores no further the interface between politics and literature.10 ...
... course unthinkable that the new despotism of Tudors and Stuarts should not have exploited and enriched the old correspondence ' [ between a monarch and the sun ] but explores no further the interface between politics and literature.10 ...
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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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action Alchemist Androgyny audience authority Bakhtin BARISH Bartholomew Fair Basingstoke and London become Ben Jonson carnival characters city comedy colonization comic court criticism culture Cynthia's Revels described Drama and Society Dramatist early modern Early Stuart economic Elizabethan England English Literary English Renaissance Epicoene Epigram Epistle essay Face festive festive marketplace fools Germanicans ideological Inigo Jones Jacobean Jonson's play Jonsonian judgment king king's Knights language late plays literature Lovewit Magnetic Lady marginal marketplace masque Masque of Blackness meaning Mercury moral Mosca Oxford patronage performance perspective plague play's playwright plot poem poet poetic political praise Puritan Quarlous reader relation relationship Renaissance Drama representation represents reveals RICHARD rogues role royal satire Sejanus Selden sense sexual Shakespeare spectators stage STEPHEN ORGEL Studies Subtle Subtle's T. S. Eliot theater theatrical Tiberius traditional transformation Truewit Underwood virtue vision Volpone Winwife women writing