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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... theatrical utopianism . Instead of moving toward a theatrical resolution that includes the spectators in the final vision of social harmony , as the earlier plays had done , Sejanus keeps its audience at a distance , refusing the ...
... theatrical utopianism . Instead of moving toward a theatrical resolution that includes the spectators in the final vision of social harmony , as the earlier plays had done , Sejanus keeps its audience at a distance , refusing the ...
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... theatrical authority for good . Sejanus takes over , and as he does the dramatic authority passes from those who use theatricality to display the truth , to those who use it to conceal the truth by making their own , self - serving ...
... theatrical authority for good . Sejanus takes over , and as he does the dramatic authority passes from those who use theatricality to display the truth , to those who use it to conceal the truth by making their own , self - serving ...
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... theatrical heart of the play lies in the relationship between these two . The others become , finally , only fodder in the death struggle between emperor and minion . It is theatrical skill which is the means of power in this struggle ...
... theatrical heart of the play lies in the relationship between these two . The others become , finally , only fodder in the death struggle between emperor and minion . It is theatrical skill which is the means of power in this struggle ...
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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