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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... Essay of Dramatick Poesie ( 1668 , revised 1684 ) : I think him the most learned and judicious Writer which any Theatre ever had ... Wit and Language , and Humour also in some measure we had before him ; but something of Art was wanting ...
... Essay of Dramatick Poesie ( 1668 , revised 1684 ) : I think him the most learned and judicious Writer which any Theatre ever had ... Wit and Language , and Humour also in some measure we had before him ; but something of Art was wanting ...
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... essay, first published in 1919: 'To be universally accepted; to be damned by the praise that quenches all desire to read the book; to be afflicted by the imputation of the virtues which excite the least pleasure; and to be read only by ...
... essay, first published in 1919: 'To be universally accepted; to be damned by the praise that quenches all desire to read the book; to be afflicted by the imputation of the virtues which excite the least pleasure; and to be read only by ...
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... essay , ' The False Ending in Volpone ' , has most of the key elements of new historicism firmly in place , in its conviction that ' Part of the contemporary fascination of Jonson's play is precisely that we feel ourselves present at ...
... essay , ' The False Ending in Volpone ' , has most of the key elements of new historicism firmly in place , in its conviction that ' Part of the contemporary fascination of Jonson's play is precisely that we feel ourselves present at ...
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... essay , ' Jonson and the ( Re- ) Invention of the Book ' , is a key intervention in this debate , as are Timothy Murray's ' From Foul Sheets to Legitimate Model : Anti - theater , Text , Ben Jonson ' and Joseph Loewenstein's ' The ...
... essay , ' Jonson and the ( Re- ) Invention of the Book ' , is a key intervention in this debate , as are Timothy Murray's ' From Foul Sheets to Legitimate Model : Anti - theater , Text , Ben Jonson ' and Joseph Loewenstein's ' The ...
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... essay on the politics of the late plays.29 Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of the pre-industrial world was the subject of study from around 1960, led by the work of C. L. ...
... essay on the politics of the late plays.29 Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of the pre-industrial world was the subject of study from around 1960, led by the work of C. L. ...
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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