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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... early Stuart London, with obtrusively classical structures, and employing archaic 'humour' psychology. Late nineteenth-century commentators (even those who professed to admire Jonson) were often torn between faint praise for his ...
... early Stuart London, with obtrusively classical structures, and employing archaic 'humour' psychology. Late nineteenth-century commentators (even those who professed to admire Jonson) were often torn between faint praise for his ...
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... Stuart period - a bulwark of essential certainties against the siren charms ... early (in British terms) response to the Marxist agenda, which related the ... early capitalism, drawing heavily on the work of R. H. Tawney and others. But ...
... Stuart period - a bulwark of essential certainties against the siren charms ... early (in British terms) response to the Marxist agenda, which related the ... early capitalism, drawing heavily on the work of R. H. Tawney and others. But ...
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... early bastion of English moral and cultural values (narrowly defined), against the demeaning influences of bad taste ... Stuart culture. J. A. Barish's Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy applied some of the earliest fruits of ...
... early bastion of English moral and cultural values (narrowly defined), against the demeaning influences of bad taste ... Stuart culture. J. A. Barish's Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy applied some of the earliest fruits of ...
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... early Stuart England; most of these are collected in her The Politics of Mirth. Martin Butler has also written detailed Marxist studies of the politics of the later masques, in which he emphasises the factional tensions behind the ...
... early Stuart England; most of these are collected in her The Politics of Mirth. Martin Butler has also written detailed Marxist studies of the politics of the later masques, in which he emphasises the factional tensions behind the ...
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... early Stuart theatre, often polarised between absolutist royal authority on the one hand and subversive or ... early modem practice, between earlier feudal models of patronage and later commercial ones, all of which involve pressures ...
... early Stuart theatre, often polarised between absolutist royal authority on the one hand and subversive or ... early modem practice, between earlier feudal models of patronage and later commercial ones, all of which involve pressures ...
Índice
1 | |
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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Palavras e frases frequentes
action Alchemist audience authority Bakhtin Barish Bartholomew Fair become Ben Jonson Cambridge carnival characters city comedy comic court criticism culture Cynthia's Revels Drama and Society Dramatist early modern Early Stuart economy Elizabethan England 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 literature Lovewit Magnetic Lady marginal marketplace masque Masque of Blackness master 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 Subtie's Subtle T. S. Eliot theater theatrical Tiberius traditional transformation Truewit Underwood University Press virtue vision Volpone Volpone's Winwife women writing