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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... Marketplace', two post-structuralist explorations of parallel territory. My Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism looks at Jonson's literary criticism in the context of this unstable literary market-place, and his attempts to define a place ...
... Marketplace', two post-structuralist explorations of parallel territory. My Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism looks at Jonson's literary criticism in the context of this unstable literary market-place, and his attempts to define a place ...
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... marketplace, an etiolation typical (they suggest) of the courtly classicism of the mid-seventeenth century. Carnival is now only to be indulged specifically as a form of social control, in which real power is not implicated or at stake ...
... marketplace, an etiolation typical (they suggest) of the courtly classicism of the mid-seventeenth century. Carnival is now only to be indulged specifically as a form of social control, in which real power is not implicated or at stake ...
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... marketplace. This is the subject of Lawrence Danson's rewarding 'Jonsonian Comedy and the Discovery of the Social Self', which completely recasts old-fashioned notions of a Jonson only able to create 'two dimensional' characters, or ...
... marketplace. This is the subject of Lawrence Danson's rewarding 'Jonsonian Comedy and the Discovery of the Social Self', which completely recasts old-fashioned notions of a Jonson only able to create 'two dimensional' characters, or ...
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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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