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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Richard Dutton. Longman Critical Readers General Editor: Stan Smith Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University Titles available: Mary Eagleton, Feminist Literary Criticism Gary Waller, Shakepeare's Comedies John ...
Richard Dutton. Longman Critical Readers General Editor: Stan Smith Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University Titles available: Mary Eagleton, Feminist Literary Criticism Gary Waller, Shakepeare's Comedies John ...
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... studies in significantly new directions. Both were narrowly focused, but in ways that had radical implications for the location of Jonson as a whole within early Stuart culture. J. A. Barish's Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy ...
... studies in significantly new directions. Both were narrowly focused, but in ways that had radical implications for the location of Jonson as a whole within early Stuart culture. J. A. Barish's Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy ...
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... studies, was to bring them centre-stage, to locate their arcane mythology, inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within the wider cultural practices of the Jacobean/Caroline court.15 For the first time a clear ...
... studies, was to bring them centre-stage, to locate their arcane mythology, inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within the wider cultural practices of the Jacobean/Caroline court.15 For the first time a clear ...
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... studies: it is dominated by social and political questions, not by aesthetic and philosophical ones. The difference is often marked by use of the social historians' term, 'early modern', for the period. It is, however, an agenda which ...
... studies: it is dominated by social and political questions, not by aesthetic and philosophical ones. The difference is often marked by use of the social historians' term, 'early modern', for the period. It is, however, an agenda which ...
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... studies. It recurs, for example, in all the most recent discussions of city or citizen comedy, a sub-genre which normally includes at least Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Where early studies were largely generic or ...
... studies. It recurs, for example, in all the most recent discussions of city or citizen comedy, a sub-genre which normally includes at least Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. Where early studies were largely generic or ...
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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