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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... Volpone Mary Beth Rose The Expense of Spirit Cheryl Lynn Ross The Plague of The Alchemist Jonathan Haynes Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair Martin Butler Late Jonson Further Reading Index vi 1 26 50 70 4 3 ...
... Volpone Mary Beth Rose The Expense of Spirit Cheryl Lynn Ross The Plague of The Alchemist Jonathan Haynes Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair Martin Butler Late Jonson Further Reading Index vi 1 26 50 70 4 3 ...
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... Volpone' from Jonson's Magic Houses by Ian Donaldson (1997) pp. 106—24; Renaissance Society of America for 'The Plague of the The Alchemist' by Cherly Lynn Ross in Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988) pp. 439—58; Routledge for an extract ...
... Volpone' from Jonson's Magic Houses by Ian Donaldson (1997) pp. 106—24; Renaissance Society of America for 'The Plague of the The Alchemist' by Cherly Lynn Ross in Renaissance Quarterly 41 (1988) pp. 439—58; Routledge for an extract ...
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... Volpone and The Alchemist - never fell entirely out of favour, and were performed (often in altered forms) throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; David Garrick, for example, was a great success as Drugger in his own version ...
... Volpone and The Alchemist - never fell entirely out of favour, and were performed (often in altered forms) throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; David Garrick, for example, was a great success as Drugger in his own version ...
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... Volpone (1606), Jonson begins to show signs of a disturbed awareness that his own identity as poet and playwright - and therefore his personal transcendence of the still rigid social hierarchy in which he lived and wrote - depended on ...
... Volpone (1606), Jonson begins to show signs of a disturbed awareness that his own identity as poet and playwright - and therefore his personal transcendence of the still rigid social hierarchy in which he lived and wrote - depended on ...
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... Volpone', has most of the key elements of new historicism firmly in place, in its conviction that 'Part of the contemporary fascination of Jonson's play is precisely that we feel ourselves present at the very fountainhead of modern ...
... Volpone', has most of the key elements of new historicism firmly in place, in its conviction that 'Part of the contemporary fascination of Jonson's play is precisely that we feel ourselves present at the very fountainhead of modern ...
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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