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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... sexual values – polarization of sexual roles , the subordination of women , and marriage based on a balance of affection and property - constitute the norm against which the play's biting satire operates . Yet the representation of ...
... sexual values – polarization of sexual roles , the subordination of women , and marriage based on a balance of affection and property - constitute the norm against which the play's biting satire operates . Yet the representation of ...
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... sexual identity , Jonson slyly implies that it is impossible to tell the difference between the sexes . That the play's bride and best woman turns out to be a man also constitutes a witty twist with multiple sexual implications . The ...
... sexual identity , Jonson slyly implies that it is impossible to tell the difference between the sexes . That the play's bride and best woman turns out to be a man also constitutes a witty twist with multiple sexual implications . The ...
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... sexual desire is usually associated with tragedy . But Jonson's triumph in Epicoene is to avoid the complexities of the tragic representation of sexuality by dispensing with eros altogether . Indeed , it is precisely because the ...
... sexual desire is usually associated with tragedy . But Jonson's triumph in Epicoene is to avoid the complexities of the tragic representation of sexuality by dispensing with eros altogether . Indeed , it is precisely because the ...
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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