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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... stage , beyond that . The survival of an author beyond his immediate readership ( survival in the sense of being found both readable and relevant ) depends ultimately on appropriation by subsequent generations . This is never a ...
... stage , beyond that . The survival of an author beyond his immediate readership ( survival in the sense of being found both readable and relevant ) depends ultimately on appropriation by subsequent generations . This is never a ...
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... stage . Yet even this praise is tinged with condescension , the slight but unmistakable suggestion that Jonson remained contaminated by the faults of the era which he had done so much to correct : One cannot say he wanted wit , but ...
... stage . Yet even this praise is tinged with condescension , the slight but unmistakable suggestion that Jonson remained contaminated by the faults of the era which he had done so much to correct : One cannot say he wanted wit , but ...
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... of subsequent studies , was to bring them centre - stage , to locate their arcane mythology , inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within 15 the wider cultural practices of the Jacobean/Caroline court. For.
... of subsequent studies , was to bring them centre - stage , to locate their arcane mythology , inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within 15 the wider cultural practices of the Jacobean/Caroline court. For.
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... stage may be said to have included Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Helgerson, Louis A. Montrose and Jonathan Goldberg), who have read the culture of the period – often under the influence of Michel Foucault – almost as the New Critics once ...
... stage may be said to have included Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Helgerson, Louis A. Montrose and Jonathan Goldberg), who have read the culture of the period – often under the influence of Michel Foucault – almost as the New Critics once ...
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... stage further in collapsing the complexities of the hierarchical system of authority into the absolutist mind - set of James I himself , arguing ( from a totalising post- Foucauldian , post - structuralist perspective on power ) that ...
... stage further in collapsing the complexities of the hierarchical system of authority into the absolutist mind - set of James I himself , arguing ( from a totalising post- Foucauldian , post - structuralist perspective on power ) that ...
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