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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... Jonsonian drama, which are carefully crafted artistic effects, not merely (as earlier critics often assumed) journalistic observations of the contemporary scene. And it can be correlated with a new perception of Jonson's relationship ...
... Jonsonian drama, which are carefully crafted artistic effects, not merely (as earlier critics often assumed) journalistic observations of the contemporary scene. And it can be correlated with a new perception of Jonson's relationship ...
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... Jonsonian speaking voice dissolves into a complex network of reciprocities, constantly dependent upon those it invokes for its own validation. Stephen Orgel's The Jonsonian Masque illuminated with unprecedented clarity one of the most ...
... Jonsonian speaking voice dissolves into a complex network of reciprocities, constantly dependent upon those it invokes for its own validation. Stephen Orgel's The Jonsonian Masque illuminated with unprecedented clarity one of the most ...
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... Jonsonian text for our own empowerment, for ways of liberating us from the condition we have inherited. The key question here is the political placement of theatre itself, defining the limits of licence and authority. This has been ...
... Jonsonian text for our own empowerment, for ways of liberating us from the condition we have inherited. The key question here is the political placement of theatre itself, defining the limits of licence and authority. This has been ...
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... Jonsonian characterisation does not reflect a lack of imaginative or creative sympathy on the part of the author: it ... Jonsonian Comedy and the Discovery of the Social Self', which completely recasts old-fashioned notions of a Jonson ...
... Jonsonian characterisation does not reflect a lack of imaginative or creative sympathy on the part of the author: it ... Jonsonian Comedy and the Discovery of the Social Self', which completely recasts old-fashioned notions of a Jonson ...
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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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