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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... Epicoene for what he called an examen, the first sustained piece of close critical reading in English culture, construing it as a model for the comedy of manners then in vogue on the Restoration stage. Yet even this praise is tinged ...
... Epicoene for what he called an examen, the first sustained piece of close critical reading in English culture, construing it as a model for the comedy of manners then in vogue on the Restoration stage. Yet even this praise is tinged ...
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... Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Where early studies were largely generic or moralistic in emphasis, recent critics have concentrated on historically specific attitudes and ideological placements: so Gail B. Paster looks at ...
... Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Where early studies were largely generic or moralistic in emphasis, recent critics have concentrated on historically specific attitudes and ideological placements: so Gail B. Paster looks at ...
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... Epicoene and (the key text here) Bartholomew Fair.31 The (overtly) political dimension was what Bakhtin added to the study of literature and festive culture in Rabelais and his World, completed by 1940 but not translated into English ...
... Epicoene and (the key text here) Bartholomew Fair.31 The (overtly) political dimension was what Bakhtin added to the study of literature and festive culture in Rabelais and his World, completed by 1940 but not translated into English ...
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... Epicoene. The implicit contrast was usually with the heroines of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, so often celebrated (with unconscious condescension) as engagingly vivacious yet charmingly vulnerable: that is, quintessential^ feminine ...
... Epicoene. The implicit contrast was usually with the heroines of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, so often celebrated (with unconscious condescension) as engagingly vivacious yet charmingly vulnerable: that is, quintessential^ feminine ...
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... Epicoene in a way that, for her, helps make it an instance of his 'anti-antitheatricality').40 The argument about all-male playing has also been reconfigured by some modern feminists, arguing that such cultural conditions produced texts ...
... Epicoene in a way that, for her, helps make it an instance of his 'anti-antitheatricality').40 The argument about all-male playing has also been reconfigured by some modern feminists, arguing that such cultural conditions produced texts ...
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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