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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... plague hit London with unusual force . Ever since the Black Death more than a century earlier , bubonic plague had been endemic to Britain , and city dwellers were accustomed to the loss of ten or fifteen lives each year . But when the ...
... plague hit London with unusual force . Ever since the Black Death more than a century earlier , bubonic plague had been endemic to Britain , and city dwellers were accustomed to the loss of ten or fifteen lives each year . But when the ...
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... plague - two practical , the third symbolic . The first practical link concerns the plague's supposed etiology . Renaissance physicians explained plague with theories of miasma and putrefaction in the air.1 Taking fogs and bad smells to ...
... plague - two practical , the third symbolic . The first practical link concerns the plague's supposed etiology . Renaissance physicians explained plague with theories of miasma and putrefaction in the air.1 Taking fogs and bad smells to ...
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... plague , other diseases , and even old age . This concentrated power is appropriate as an imagined cure for a disease like the plague , whose contagious potential seems limitless , but it is even more appropriate as an analogue for the ...
... plague , other diseases , and even old age . This concentrated power is appropriate as an imagined cure for a disease like the plague , whose contagious potential seems limitless , but it is even more appropriate as an analogue for the ...
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An Alternative View | 26 |
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JOHN G SWEENEY III Sejanus and the Peoples Beastly Rage | 50 |
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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