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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... courts 'almost completely out of touch and sympathy with the great movements [i.e. for civil liberty and religious reform] which were soon to triumph'. 9 Jonson's close identification with those courts made (and to an extent still makes) ...
... courts 'almost completely out of touch and sympathy with the great movements [i.e. for civil liberty and religious reform] which were soon to triumph'. 9 Jonson's close identification with those courts made (and to an extent still makes) ...
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... court masques ; Tillyard here notes in passing that it ' is of 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 ...
... court masques ; Tillyard here notes in passing that it ' is of 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 ...
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... court . Orgel's achievement , here and in a number of subsequent studies , was to bring them centre - stage , to locate their arcane mythology , inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within 15 the wider cultural ...
... court . Orgel's achievement , here and in a number of subsequent studies , was to bring them centre - stage , to locate their arcane mythology , inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within 15 the wider cultural ...
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... court's place within that reality, 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 ...
... court's place within that reality, 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 ...
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... court, the country gentry and the city, is the most sustained and challenging representation of the period that we have. In studying it we are observing our origins before they became overlaid with bourgeois social practices ...
... court, the country gentry and the city, is the most sustained and challenging representation of the period that we have. In studying it we are observing our origins before they became overlaid with bourgeois social practices ...
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