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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... Tragedy Richard Wilson and Richard Dutton, New Historicism and Renaissance Drama Peter Widdowson, D. H. Lawrence Peter Brooker, Modernism/Postmodernism Rachel Bowlby, Virginia Woolf Francis Mulhern, Contemporary Marxist Literary ...
... Tragedy Richard Wilson and Richard Dutton, New Historicism and Renaissance Drama Peter Widdowson, D. H. Lawrence Peter Brooker, Modernism/Postmodernism Rachel Bowlby, Virginia Woolf Francis Mulhern, Contemporary Marxist Literary ...
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... Renaissance Drama by Mary Beth Rose, (1988) pp. 50—64; Johns Hopkins University Press for an extract from James I and the Politics of Literature by Jonathan Goldberg (1983) pp. 55—65; 'Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Bartholomew ...
... Renaissance Drama by Mary Beth Rose, (1988) pp. 50—64; Johns Hopkins University Press for an extract from James I and the Politics of Literature by Jonathan Goldberg (1983) pp. 55—65; 'Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Bartholomew ...
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... literature of a pre-lapsarian Renaissance, where everyone knew his or her place) - and that is why these are still live issues. The moral imperative L. C. Knights's Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively ...
... literature of a pre-lapsarian Renaissance, where everyone knew his or her place) - and that is why these are still live issues. The moral imperative L. C. Knights's Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively ...
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... Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re-examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been at the heart of the ...
... Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re-examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been at the heart of the ...
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... plays as celebrating the commodification of city life even as they satirise it.20 Another common approach to Jonson's ... Renaissance Drama, seeking to show how Jonson could, paradoxically, be both the dramatist whose work was most ...
... plays as celebrating the commodification of city life even as they satirise it.20 Another common approach to Jonson's ... Renaissance Drama, seeking to show how Jonson could, paradoxically, be both the dramatist whose work was most ...
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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