Ben JonsonRoutledge, 21/07/2014 - 232 páginas Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death. This new collection offers detailed readings of all the major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides significant insights into the court masques and the later plays which have only recently been rediscovered as genuinely engaging stage pieces. |
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... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View John G. Sweeney III Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage Jonathan Goldberg State Secrets Stanley Fish Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same Ian Donaldson Unknown ...
... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View John G. Sweeney III Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage Jonathan Goldberg State Secrets Stanley Fish Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same Ian Donaldson Unknown ...
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... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative VieW' by Don E. Wayne in Renaissance Drama 13 (1982) pp. 103—29; Oxford University Press Ltd for chapter 'Unknown Ends: Volpone' from Jonson's Magic Houses by Ian Donaldson (1997) ...
... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative VieW' by Don E. Wayne in Renaissance Drama 13 (1982) pp. 103—29; Oxford University Press Ltd for chapter 'Unknown Ends: Volpone' from Jonson's Magic Houses by Ian Donaldson (1997) ...
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... dramatic verse at which Jonson excelled. The ... Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively different analysis. Published in 1937, it was a remarkably early (in British terms) response to the Marxist agenda, which related the drama ...
... dramatic verse at which Jonson excelled. The ... Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively different analysis. Published in 1937, it was a remarkably early (in British terms) response to the Marxist agenda, which related the drama ...
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... drama; the rise and definition of the literary profession; the 'birth' of ... social, political and cultural world as we know it. Britain saw the beginnings ... society chiefly bound by extended dynastic allegiances and patronage to one ...
... drama; the rise and definition of the literary profession; the 'birth' of ... social, political and cultural world as we know it. Britain saw the beginnings ... society chiefly bound by extended dynastic allegiances and patronage to one ...
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... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View' (1982, reprinted here) is a good place from which to begin to tease out the issues. He questions the terms in which L. C. Knights had earlier proposed Jonson's centrality. In ...
... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View' (1982, reprinted here) is a good place from which to begin to tease out the issues. He questions the terms in which L. C. Knights had earlier proposed Jonson's centrality. In ...
Índice
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An Alternative View | 26 |
3 Sejanus and the Peoples Beastly Rage | 50 |
4 State Secrets | 70 |
Jonsons Community of the Same | 83 |
Volpone | 118 |
7 The Expense of Spirit | 136 |
8 The Plague of The Alchemist | 149 |
9 Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonsons Bartholomew Fair | 167 |
10 Late Jonson | 189 |
Further Reading | 210 |
Index | 219 |
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