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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... authority, not least the moral authority of the poet himself: Bartholomew Fair is a text for the late twentieth century. It has become (with King Lear) the archetypal early modern text, the keyhole through which we look back to the ...
... authority, not least the moral authority of the poet himself: Bartholomew Fair is a text for the late twentieth century. It has become (with King Lear) the archetypal early modern text, the keyhole through which we look back to the ...
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... authorities and the one who came closest to being the censor himself, holding the reversion to the office of Master of the ... authority into the absolutist mind-set of James I himself, arguing (from a totalising post-Foucauldian, post ...
... authorities and the one who came closest to being the censor himself, holding the reversion to the office of Master of the ... authority into the absolutist mind-set of James I himself, arguing (from a totalising post-Foucauldian, post ...
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... authority, as power and meaning, reality and imagination, become synonymous and interchangeable categories. Jonson (like Donne and other contemporaries) is thus an involuntary agent in the agenda of power, replicating in his writings ...
... authority, as power and meaning, reality and imagination, become synonymous and interchangeable categories. Jonson (like Donne and other contemporaries) is thus an involuntary agent in the agenda of power, replicating in his writings ...
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... authority. Yet recent considerations of these matters (for example, the biographies mentioned earlier, especially that by Riggs) have shown how provisional and fraught it all was at the time, how deeply implicated in changing social ...
... authority. Yet recent considerations of these matters (for example, the biographies mentioned earlier, especially that by Riggs) have shown how provisional and fraught it all was at the time, how deeply implicated in changing social ...
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... authority, or does he rather insist (in a formulation most persuasively argued by Peter Burke) that carnival is and should be seen as a safety valve, consciously stage-managed by Renaissance authorities for their subjects in order that ...
... authority, or does he rather insist (in a formulation most persuasively argued by Peter Burke) that carnival is and should be seen as a safety valve, consciously stage-managed by Renaissance authorities for their subjects in order that ...
Índice
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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