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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... questions, not by aesthetic and philosophical ones. The difference is often marked by use of the social historians' term, 'early modern', for the period. It is, however, an agenda which has attracted a wide variety of critics and ...
... questions, not by aesthetic and philosophical ones. The difference is often marked by use of the social historians' term, 'early modern', for the period. It is, however, an agenda which has attracted a wide variety of critics and ...
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... questions the terms in which L. C. Knights had earlier proposed Jonson's centrality. In Knights's book, Wayne argues, 'the Jacobean theater is represented as a place where author and audience are joined in the communal celebration of a ...
... questions the terms in which L. C. Knights had earlier proposed Jonson's centrality. In Knights's book, Wayne argues, 'the Jacobean theater is represented as a place where author and audience are joined in the communal celebration of a ...
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... questions of the unstable , self- revealing theatrical medium and the formation of modern social identity interpenetrate , with inescapable consequences for the early modern author . The nature of Jonson's view of himself , and of his ...
... questions of the unstable , self- revealing theatrical medium and the formation of modern social identity interpenetrate , with inescapable consequences for the early modern author . The nature of Jonson's view of himself , and of his ...
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... question is : where does Jonson himself stand in this text , in relation to the interplay of high and low cultures and to the place of carnival practices in the hierarchical structures of Jacobean society ? Does he , with Bakhtin ...
... question is : where does Jonson himself stand in this text , in relation to the interplay of high and low cultures and to the place of carnival practices in the hierarchical structures of Jacobean society ? Does he , with Bakhtin ...
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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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