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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... relationship with the world he was representing : ' Where other baroque writers explicitly dramatise their tensions , in Jonson the tensions remain buried ... The presence of tension in Jonson reveals itself most obviously in his ...
... relationship with the world he was representing : ' Where other baroque writers explicitly dramatise their tensions , in Jonson the tensions remain buried ... The presence of tension in Jonson reveals itself most obviously in his ...
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... relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re- examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been ...
... relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re- examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been ...
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... relationships and private convictions: from the world reflected in the Paston and Lisle family letters to that recorded in the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys. That is, it is the period in which the world as we know it largely took shape ...
... relationships and private convictions: from the world reflected in the Paston and Lisle family letters to that recorded in the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys. That is, it is the period in which the world as we know it largely took shape ...
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... poet and playwright – and therefore his personal transcendence of the still rigid social hierarchy in which he lived and wrote – depended on the same emerging structure of social relationships In that he satirized in his plays', a view he.
... poet and playwright – and therefore his personal transcendence of the still rigid social hierarchy in which he lived and wrote – depended on the same emerging structure of social relationships In that he satirized in his plays', a view he.
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... relationship with the public audience, but equally oblique relationship with the court; in its exploration of liberty and licence as mirror images of each other, in ways that border on madness; in its problematisation of moral authority ...
... relationship with the public audience, but equally oblique relationship with the court; in its exploration of liberty and licence as mirror images of each other, in ways that border on madness; in its problematisation of moral authority ...
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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