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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... Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of the pre-industrial world was the subject of study from around 1960, led by the work of C. L. Barber and Northrop Frye.30 Although this ...
... Carnival and licence The relationship of Shakespearean drama to the festive rhythms and practices of the pre-industrial world was the subject of study from around 1960, led by the work of C. L. Barber and Northrop Frye.30 Although this ...
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... Carnival is now only to be indulged specifically as a form of social control, in which real power is not implicated or at stake. Such formulations of authorship and authority, however, run the risk of overestimating (like, perhaps, the ...
... Carnival is now only to be indulged specifically as a form of social control, in which real power is not implicated or at stake. Such formulations of authorship and authority, however, run the risk of overestimating (like, perhaps, the ...
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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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