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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... seen as the representative figure , rather than Shakespeare - and his contemporaries to the prevailing social and economic conditions of early capitalism , drawing heavily on the work of R. H. Tawney and others . But , with hindsight ...
... seen as the representative figure , rather than Shakespeare - and his contemporaries to the prevailing social and economic conditions of early capitalism , drawing heavily on the work of R. H. Tawney and others . But , with hindsight ...
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... seen as carrying forward Orgel's work . But Orgel's emphasis on the creation of art that celebrates the king and his court is translated into a perspective in which the royal will dictates the terms of literary subjectivity , not only ...
... seen as carrying forward Orgel's work . But Orgel's emphasis on the creation of art that celebrates the king and his court is translated into a perspective in which the royal will dictates the terms of literary subjectivity , not only ...
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... seen as a landmark in the developing primacy of print culture ( with all that implies about the passing of a culture based on the spoken word , folk memory and festive customs ) , and as a significant step towards making ' literature ...
... seen as a landmark in the developing primacy of print culture ( with all that implies about the passing of a culture based on the spoken word , folk memory and festive customs ) , and as a significant step towards making ' literature ...
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... seen as a safety valve , consciously stage - managed by Renaissance authorities for their subjects in order that ' they may give vent to spirits stifled for the rest of the year ' ? 33 These questions have been addressed directly by ...
... seen as a safety valve , consciously stage - managed by Renaissance authorities for their subjects in order that ' they may give vent to spirits stifled for the rest of the year ' ? 33 These questions have been addressed directly by ...
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... seen as a calculated riposte to the ' enormity ' of the actual Bartholomew Fair , which took place under the aegis of the City of London and its Puritan fathers . So the play articulates the struggle for authority between the court and ...
... seen as a calculated riposte to the ' enormity ' of the actual Bartholomew Fair , which took place under the aegis of the City of London and its Puritan fathers . So the play articulates the struggle for authority between the court and ...
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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Palavras e frases frequentes
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