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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... poetry performs an action precisely analogous to the granting of favor and preferment by the wealthy and the powerful to those who petition them . It names who is in and who is out and awards not knighthoods , or offices or commissions ...
... poetry performs an action precisely analogous to the granting of favor and preferment by the wealthy and the powerful to those who petition them . It names who is in and who is out and awards not knighthoods , or offices or commissions ...
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... poetry to the category of anti - court satire . Of course there are a few poems - ' To the World , A Farewell ' , ' To Sir Robert Wroth ' , ' An Epistle to a Friend , to Persuade Him to the Wars ' , ' On Court - Worm ' , ' To Censorious ...
... poetry to the category of anti - court satire . Of course there are a few poems - ' To the World , A Farewell ' , ' To Sir Robert Wroth ' , ' An Epistle to a Friend , to Persuade Him to the Wars ' , ' On Court - Worm ' , ' To Censorious ...
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... poetry that manages to convince itself - and on occasion manages almost to convince us - that to owe money is already to have repaid it , that to ask a favor is to have granted one , that to praise kings is to exercise majesty , and ...
... poetry that manages to convince itself - and on occasion manages almost to convince us - that to owe money is already to have repaid it , that to ask a favor is to have granted one , that to praise kings is to exercise majesty , and ...
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JOHN G SWEENEY III Sejanus and the Peoples Beastly Rage | 50 |
IAN DONALDSON | 118 |
MARY BETH ROSE | 136 |
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action Alchemist audience authority Bakhtin Barish Bartholomew Fair become Ben Jonson Cambridge carnival characters city comedy colonization comic court criticism culture Cynthia's Revels described Drama and Society Dramatist early modern economic Elizabethan England English Literary English Renaissance Epicoene Epigram Epistle essay Face festive festive marketplace fools Germanicans History ideological Inigo Jones Jacobean Jonson's play Jonson's poetry Jonsonian judgment king king's Knights language London Lovewit Magnetic Lady marginal marketplace masque 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 structure Stuart Studies Subtle Subtle's T. S. Eliot theater theatrical Tiberius traditional transformation Truewit Underwood University Press virtue vision Volpone Volpone's Winwife women writing