Ben JonsonRichard Dutton Longman, 2000 - 223 páginas This collection offers detailed readings of all Ben Jonson's major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides insights into the court masques and the later plays which have been rediscovered in the late-20th century. |
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... Fortune , at base , is a metaphor , a desperate trope whereby men shirk the consequences of their folly.8 The question is why Jonson , to this point in the play so rigorously insistent upon human agency , should turn to the supernatural ...
... Fortune , at base , is a metaphor , a desperate trope whereby men shirk the consequences of their folly.8 The question is why Jonson , to this point in the play so rigorously insistent upon human agency , should turn to the supernatural ...
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... Fortune is described in the final act , as Sejanus calls her a giglot . The first important personification of Fortune is Sejanus ' : I know not that one deity , but Fortune , To whom I would throw up in begging smoke One grain of ...
... Fortune is described in the final act , as Sejanus calls her a giglot . The first important personification of Fortune is Sejanus ' : I know not that one deity , but Fortune , To whom I would throw up in begging smoke One grain of ...
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... Fortune : Fortune , be mine again . Thou hast satisfied For thy suspected loyalty ... By you that fools call gods , Hang all the sky with your prodigious signs , Fill earth with monsters , drop the scorpion down Out of the zodiac , or ...
... Fortune : Fortune , be mine again . Thou hast satisfied For thy suspected loyalty ... By you that fools call gods , Hang all the sky with your prodigious signs , Fill earth with monsters , drop the scorpion down Out of the zodiac , or ...
Índice
An Alternative View | 26 |
STANLEY FISH | 83 |
IAN DONALDSON | 118 |
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action Alchemist audience authority Bakhtin BARISH Bartholomew Fair Basingstoke and London become Ben Jonson Cambridge carnival characters city comedy comic court criticism culture Cynthia's Revels Drama and Society Dramatist early modern Early Stuart Elizabethan England English Literary English Renaissance Epicoene Epigram Epistle essay Face festive festive marketplace fools Germanicans ideological Inigo Jones Jacobean Jonson's play Jonson's poetry Jonsonian judgment king king's Knights language Lovewit Magnetic Lady marginal marketplace masque Masque of Blackness meaning Mercury moral Mosca Oxford patronage performance perspective plague play's playwright plot poem poet poet's poetic political praise Puritan Quarlous readers relation relationship Renaissance Drama representation represents reveals rogues role royal satire Sejanus Selden sense sexual Shakespeare Silent Woman spectators stage STEPHEN ORGEL Studies Subtle Subtle's T. S. Eliot theater theatrical Tiberius traditional transformation Truewit Underwood University Press virtue Volpone Volpone's Winwife women writing