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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... never a disinterested process of saving what is objectively or inherently valuable ; it is a much more selfish business of recognising what can be used , what will serve a purpose ( which may , of course , be very different from the ...
... never a disinterested process of saving what is objectively or inherently valuable ; it is a much more selfish business of recognising what can be used , what will serve a purpose ( which may , of course , be very different from the ...
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... never quite enough of what the Restoration would call a gentleman to allow innate good taste to take precedence over laborious learning . In this , as in so much else , he was contrasted with the ' naturally learn'd ' Shakespeare : ' I ...
... never quite enough of what the Restoration would call a gentleman to allow innate good taste to take precedence over laborious learning . In this , as in so much else , he was contrasted with the ' naturally learn'd ' Shakespeare : ' I ...
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... never as influential as his championing of other early modern poets, such as Donne, Herbert and Marvell. Their verse was served particularly well by the New Critics, whose largely a-historical style of close textual reading (in some ...
... never as influential as his championing of other early modern poets, such as Donne, Herbert and Marvell. Their verse was served particularly well by the New Critics, whose largely a-historical style of close textual reading (in some ...
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... never altogether insulated from the " misrule " he is praised for correcting ' . Jonson's unease about the theatre as a medium can never entirely be divorced from doubts about the placement of the theatre in Jacobean cultural politics ...
... never altogether insulated from the " misrule " he is praised for correcting ' . Jonson's unease about the theatre as a medium can never entirely be divorced from doubts about the placement of the theatre in Jacobean cultural politics ...
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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