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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... early modern English culture he was helping to construct, and not timeless. They remained valid for a century or so after his death, but could not guarantee him readers, or a regular place on the stage, beyond that. The survival of an ...
... early modern English culture he was helping to construct, and not timeless. They remained valid for a century or so after his death, but could not guarantee him readers, or a regular place on the stage, beyond that. The survival of an ...
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... early Stuart London, with obtrusively classical structures, and employing ... Modernist aesthetic was, by its own nature, only ever likely to convince a select ... modern poets, such as Donne, Herbert and Marvell. Their verse was served ...
... early Stuart London, with obtrusively classical structures, and employing ... Modernist aesthetic was, by its own nature, only ever likely to convince a select ... modern poets, such as Donne, Herbert and Marvell. Their verse was served ...
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... early modern period provides a unique mirror to our own. The century from the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 to the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 laid the foundations for the social, political and cultural world as we know it ...
... early modern period provides a unique mirror to our own. The century from the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 to the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 laid the foundations for the social, political and cultural world as we know it ...
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... modern world, to convince us that it is 'normal' and not in fact a construct. In looking at the early modern, and especially such an influential feature of it as Jonson, we look at the unvarnished building blocks of our own world. This ...
... modern world, to convince us that it is 'normal' and not in fact a construct. In looking at the early modern, and especially such an influential feature of it as Jonson, we look at the unvarnished building blocks of our own world. This ...
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... early modern text, the keyhole through which we look back to the structures and practices of medieval England and forward to the bourgeois sensibilities, mercantilist ethics and re-graduated class structures of the Restoration and ...
... early modern text, the keyhole through which we look back to the structures and practices of medieval England and forward to the bourgeois sensibilities, mercantilist ethics and re-graduated class structures of the Restoration and ...
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