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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... perspective that he singled out Epicoene for what he called an examen, the first sustained piece of close critical reading in English culture, construing it as a model for the comedy of manners then in vogue on the Restoration stage ...
... perspective that he singled out Epicoene for what he called an examen, the first sustained piece of close critical reading in English culture, construing it as a model for the comedy of manners then in vogue on the Restoration stage ...
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... perspectives, including a more sympathetic understanding of his imitation of classical precedents. The general predisposition to take Jonson's pose as a free-standing moralist at face value was not directly challenged until the article ...
... perspectives, including a more sympathetic understanding of his imitation of classical precedents. The general predisposition to take Jonson's pose as a free-standing moralist at face value was not directly challenged until the article ...
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... perspective in Literary Patronage in the English Renaissance: The Pembroke Family. I approach the dramatic censorship of the period via patronage and the factional politics it served in Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and ...
... perspective in Literary Patronage in the English Renaissance: The Pembroke Family. I approach the dramatic censorship of the period via patronage and the factional politics it served in Mastering the Revels: The Regulation and ...
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... perspective in 'Making and Buying: Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre Audience'.25 Such matters open quickly into the debate about the socio-political 'place' of the stage in early modern culture, and how this affected Jonson's ...
... perspective in 'Making and Buying: Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre Audience'.25 Such matters open quickly into the debate about the socio-political 'place' of the stage in early modern culture, and how this affected Jonson's ...
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... perspectives and cross-dressing Long before explicitly feminist criticism foregrounded the issue of the representation of women in Renaissance drama, the (predominantly male) tradition of Jonson criticism was unanimous in its ...
... perspectives and cross-dressing Long before explicitly feminist criticism foregrounded the issue of the representation of women in Renaissance drama, the (predominantly male) tradition of Jonson criticism was unanimous in its ...
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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