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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... interest in Jonson over the last twenty years, after years of relative neglect, is a measure of that revolution in critical taste and methodology. It says something in itself that, although Jonson's is by far the most fully documented ...
... interest in Jonson over the last twenty years, after years of relative neglect, is a measure of that revolution in critical taste and methodology. It says something in itself that, although Jonson's is by far the most fully documented ...
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... 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 practices are being ...
... 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 practices are being ...
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... 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 the pre-industrial ...
... 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 the pre-industrial ...
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... interest, but also on gullibility and corruption. And relationships between the sexes become metaphors for, or indistinguishable from, these conditions. Mary Beth Rose's piece on Epicoene, reprinted here, pursues these questions with ...
... interest, but also on gullibility and corruption. And relationships between the sexes become metaphors for, or indistinguishable from, these conditions. Mary Beth Rose's piece on Epicoene, reprinted here, pursues these questions with ...
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... interests of the theatre and Jonson's project of legitimating playwriting as a “ masculine ” , public activity ' . 45 While Epicoene has become a particular target for feminist critics , others have focused upon the fact that a number ...
... interests of the theatre and Jonson's project of legitimating playwriting as a “ masculine ” , public activity ' . 45 While Epicoene has become a particular target for feminist critics , others have focused upon the fact that a number ...
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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