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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... moral imperative L. C. Knights's Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively different analysis. Published in 1937, it was a remarkably early (in British terms) response to the Marxist agenda, which related the drama ...
... moral imperative L. C. Knights's Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively different analysis. Published in 1937, it was a remarkably early (in British terms) response to the Marxist agenda, which related the drama ...
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... moral earnestness, they appropriated Jonson as a new kind of bench-mark: an early bastion of English moral and cultural values (narrowly defined), against the demeaning influences of bad taste, ignorance and misapplied money. This view ...
... moral earnestness, they appropriated Jonson as a new kind of bench-mark: an early bastion of English moral and cultural values (narrowly defined), against the demeaning influences of bad taste, ignorance and misapplied money. This view ...
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... moral 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 ...
... moral 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 ...
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... 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 'Making and Buying: Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre ...
... 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 'Making and Buying: Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre ...
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... moral judgment and the play's generic definition as a festive comedy. He opens up the whole argument more widely in Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship, seeing licensing as a distinctive early modem ...
... moral judgment and the play's generic definition as a festive comedy. He opens up the whole argument more widely in Licensed by Authority: Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship, seeing licensing as a distinctive early modem ...
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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