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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... Shakespearean Tragedy Richard Wilson and Richard Dutton, New Historicism and Renaissance Drama Peter Widdowson ... Shakespeare: The Last Plays Richard Wilson, Christopher Marlowe Nigel Wood, Jonathan Swift Jennifer Birkett and Kate ...
... Shakespearean Tragedy Richard Wilson and Richard Dutton, New Historicism and Renaissance Drama Peter Widdowson ... Shakespeare: The Last Plays Richard Wilson, Christopher Marlowe Nigel Wood, Jonathan Swift Jennifer Birkett and Kate ...
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... author for 'Authors—Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same' by Stanley Fish in Representations 7 (1984), © 1984 by the Regents of the University of California. 1 Introduction The history If Shakespeare was 'not of an Vi Acknowledgements.
... author for 'Authors—Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same' by Stanley Fish in Representations 7 (1984), © 1984 by the Regents of the University of California. 1 Introduction The history If Shakespeare was 'not of an Vi Acknowledgements.
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... Shakespeare: 'I admire him, but I love Shakespeare' (pp. 89-90). It would be wrong to give the impression that Dryden was absolutely typical of his time in this - there were many, for example, who genuinely respected Jonson's Catiline ...
... Shakespeare: 'I admire him, but I love Shakespeare' (pp. 89-90). It would be wrong to give the impression that Dryden was absolutely typical of his time in this - there were many, for example, who genuinely respected Jonson's Catiline ...
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... Shakespeare - and his contemporaries to the prevailing social and economic conditions of early capitalism, drawing heavily on the work of R. H. Tawney and others. But, with hindsight, it can be seen that, for all the differences of ...
... Shakespeare - and his contemporaries to the prevailing social and economic conditions of early capitalism, drawing heavily on the work of R. H. Tawney and others. But, with hindsight, it can be seen that, for all the differences of ...
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... Shakespearean cadences) harsh. The insight can readily be translated to his dramatic verse, and has a variety of implications for what we mean when we talk of the 'realism' or 'realistic texture' of Jonsonian drama, which are carefully ...
... Shakespearean cadences) harsh. The insight can readily be translated to his dramatic verse, and has a variety of implications for what we mean when we talk of the 'realism' or 'realistic texture' of Jonsonian drama, which are carefully ...
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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