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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... Elizabethan World Picture, which drew heavily on A. O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being (1936), argued for the survival of a static, hierarchical, medieval frame of intellectual reference throughout the Tudor/Stuart period - a bulwark ...
... Elizabethan World Picture, which drew heavily on A. O. Lovejoy's The Great Chain of Being (1936), argued for the survival of a static, hierarchical, medieval frame of intellectual reference throughout the Tudor/Stuart period - a bulwark ...
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... Elizabethan/Jacobean drama; the rise and definition of the literary profession; the 'birth' of the modern author; the origins of literary criticism as a cultural practice from which that in the modern academy is lineally descended ...
... Elizabethan/Jacobean drama; the rise and definition of the literary profession; the 'birth' of the modern author; the origins of literary criticism as a cultural practice from which that in the modern academy is lineally descended ...
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... Elizabethan theatrical practice, and is most illuminating in relation to the plays from Bartholomew Fair on, including the Caroline works damningly dismissed by Dryden as his 'dotages', which have rarely received sympathetic attention ...
... Elizabethan theatrical practice, and is most illuminating in relation to the plays from Bartholomew Fair on, including the Caroline works damningly dismissed by Dryden as his 'dotages', which have rarely received sympathetic attention ...
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... Elizabethan cultural politics. And it was rarely applied to Jonson, with the notable exception of Ian Donaldson's The World Upside-Down: Comedy from Jonson to Fielding, which had chapters on Epicoene and (the key text here) Bartholomew ...
... Elizabethan cultural politics. And it was rarely applied to Jonson, with the notable exception of Ian Donaldson's The World Upside-Down: Comedy from Jonson to Fielding, which had chapters on Epicoene and (the key text here) Bartholomew ...
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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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