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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... audience are joined in the communal celebration of a traditional code of behavior and in the censure of those who violate the code', which 'overlooks the ways in which Jonson is himself implicated in what he criticizes' and that 'the ...
... audience are joined in the communal celebration of a traditional code of behavior and in the censure of those who violate the code', which 'overlooks the ways in which Jonson is himself implicated in what he criticizes' and that 'the ...
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... audiences) carefully printed to emulate those of the classical past.23 Richard Helgerson's Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton and the Literary System reviews the whole idea of a literary 'career' in these contexts ...
... audiences) carefully printed to emulate those of the classical past.23 Richard Helgerson's Self-Crowned Laureates: Spenser, Jonson, Milton and the Literary System reviews the whole idea of a literary 'career' in these contexts ...
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... audience control and the factors that govern literary and moral judgement: see the essay on Sejanus reprinted here. Kate McLuskie, on the other hand, has analysed Jonson's relationship with his audiences from an economic perspective in ...
... audience control and the factors that govern literary and moral judgement: see the essay on Sejanus reprinted here. Kate McLuskie, on the other hand, has analysed Jonson's relationship with his audiences from an economic perspective in ...
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... audiences are mirrored in competitive relationships with other writers. George E. Rowe, for example, examines his whole dramatic career in terms of Jonson's determination to 'distinguish' himself from his contemporaries and their tastes ...
... audiences are mirrored in competitive relationships with other writers. George E. Rowe, for example, examines his whole dramatic career in terms of Jonson's determination to 'distinguish' himself from his contemporaries and their tastes ...
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... audience ... its parts are interrelated and interdependent, and were changing together as part of the same broad historical process', a process within which 'real social festivity has become a utopian idea - not the utopian reality ...
... audience ... its parts are interrelated and interdependent, and were changing together as part of the same broad historical process', a process within which 'real social festivity has become a utopian idea - not the utopian reality ...
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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action Alchemist audience authority Bakhtin Barish Bartholomew Fair become Ben Jonson Cambridge carnival characters city comedy comic court criticism culture Cynthia's Revels Drama and Society Dramatist early modern Early Stuart economy Elizabethan England English Renaissance Epicoene Epigram Epistle essay Face festive festive marketplace fools Germanicans History ideological Inigo Jones Jacobean Jonson's play Jonson's poetry Jonsonian judgment king king's Knights language literature Lovewit Magnetic Lady marginal marketplace masque Masque of Blackness master meaning Mercury moral Mosca Oxford patronage performance perspective plague play's playwright plot poem poet poet's poetic political praise Puritan Quarlous readers relation relationship Renaissance Drama representation represents reveals rogues role royal satire Sejanus Selden sense sexual Shakespeare Silent Woman spectators stage Stephen Orgel Studies Subtie's Subtle T. S. Eliot theater theatrical Tiberius traditional transformation Truewit Underwood University Press virtue vision Volpone Volpone's Winwife women writing