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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... England, his personal success story takes on the characteristics of a cultural phenomenon: in following his rise we are also witnessing the emergence of authorship as a full-time vocation'.16 At the same time, literary biography has ...
... England, his personal success story takes on the characteristics of a cultural phenomenon: in following his rise we are also witnessing the emergence of authorship as a full-time vocation'.16 At the same time, literary biography has ...
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... England and forward to the bourgeois sensibilities, mercantilist ethics and re-graduated class structures of the Restoration and beyond. The conflicted nature of Jonson's relationship with his society thereafter becomes a central issue ...
... England and forward to the bourgeois sensibilities, mercantilist ethics and re-graduated class structures of the Restoration and beyond. The conflicted nature of Jonson's relationship with his society thereafter becomes a central issue ...
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... 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 panegyric surfaces ...
... 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 panegyric surfaces ...
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... England, if not in other parts of Europe) it might amount to a neutral convention, taken for granted in a culture so implicitly patriarchal that its whole conception of gender was 'teleologically male', to a degree barely conceivable to ...
... England, if not in other parts of Europe) it might amount to a neutral convention, taken for granted in a culture so implicitly patriarchal that its whole conception of gender was 'teleologically male', to a degree barely conceivable to ...
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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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