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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... Jonson's Career', the extent to which our perception of Jonson as a self-confident laureate poet, riding above the ... Jonson's play is precisely that we feel ourselves present at the very fountainhead of modern consciousness, present ...
... Jonson's Career', the extent to which our perception of Jonson as a self-confident laureate poet, riding above the ... Jonson's play is precisely that we feel ourselves present at the very fountainhead of modern consciousness, present ...
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... Jonson's tetchy relationship with the live audiences of his plays (who 'cried down' the first performances of at least three plays, Sejanus, Catiline and The New Inn) was long dismissed as a temperamental trait. But in the light of the ...
... Jonson's tetchy relationship with the live audiences of his plays (who 'cried down' the first performances of at least three plays, Sejanus, Catiline and The New Inn) was long dismissed as a temperamental trait. But in the light of the ...
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... plays are not signs of Jonson's faculties in decline, or indeed (in the case of The Tale of a Tub) evidence of a very early play, clumsily revised; but rather represent Jonson's own more accommodating reconsideration of the ...
... plays are not signs of Jonson's faculties in decline, or indeed (in the case of The Tale of a Tub) evidence of a very early play, clumsily revised; but rather represent Jonson's own more accommodating reconsideration of the ...
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... plays.29 Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of the pre-industrial world was the subject of study from around 1960, led by the work of ... play as a representative 14 Ben Jonson.
... plays.29 Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of the pre-industrial world was the subject of study from around 1960, led by the work of ... play as a representative 14 Ben Jonson.
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... play: the commercial economy of Bartholomew Fair as Jonson represents it in his play; the economy of dramatic relations within the play; and the theatrical economy of relations with the audience ... its parts are interrelated and ...
... play: the commercial economy of Bartholomew Fair as Jonson represents it in his play; the economy of dramatic relations within the play; and the theatrical economy of relations with the audience ... its parts are interrelated and ...
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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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