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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... patronage to one significantly informed by the nuclear family, contractual relationships and private convictions: from the world reflected in the Paston and Lisle family letters to that recorded in the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys. That ...
... patronage to one significantly informed by the nuclear family, contractual relationships and private convictions: from the world reflected in the Paston and Lisle family letters to that recorded in the diaries of Evelyn and Pepys. That ...
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... patronage or the emergence of the commercial theatre, without a commitment to overarching Whig or Marxist metahistories; and e) feminists like Mary Beth Rose, Karen Newman, Phyllis Rackin and Kathleen E. McLuskie, who might be attached ...
... patronage or the emergence of the commercial theatre, without a commitment to overarching Whig or Marxist metahistories; and e) feminists like Mary Beth Rose, Karen Newman, Phyllis Rackin and Kathleen E. McLuskie, who might be attached ...
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... Patronage makes ambitious claims for patronage as the determining characteristic of the socio-psychology of the era, so pervasive as to inflect every feature of Jonson's output: The patronage system was more than simply a means of ...
... Patronage makes ambitious claims for patronage as the determining characteristic of the socio-psychology of the era, so pervasive as to inflect every feature of Jonson's output: The patronage system was more than simply a means of ...
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... patronage for survival? Was it a hybrid mix of these, or was it not indeed a homogenous entity at all: were there in fact numerous different theatres, each with its own 'place'?26 For each answer there is a different Jonson. But if ...
... patronage for survival? Was it a hybrid mix of these, or was it not indeed a homogenous entity at all: were there in fact numerous different theatres, each with its own 'place'?26 For each answer there is a different Jonson. But if ...
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... patronage, with the death of James I, seems to have driven him back both to the theatre and to print. These matters have been re-cast in the structuralist/post-structuralist debate about how much the meaning of texts (and so, arguably ...
... patronage, with the death of James I, seems to have driven him back both to the theatre and to print. These matters have been re-cast in the structuralist/post-structuralist debate about how much the meaning of texts (and so, arguably ...
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