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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... play which Knights had virtually ignored, Bartholomew Fair (p. 29). In this, as in much else, Wayne caught the prevailing wind: Bartholomew Fair was replacing Volpone and The Alchemist as the centre of critical (if not theatrical) ...
... play which Knights had virtually ignored, Bartholomew Fair (p. 29). In this, as in much else, Wayne caught the prevailing wind: Bartholomew Fair was replacing Volpone and The Alchemist as the centre of critical (if not theatrical) ...
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... play, clumsily revised; but rather represent Jonson's own more accommodating reconsideration of the Shakespearean era, then fast receding into history, and of his own relationship to it. The argument has been widely accepted, and helped ...
... play, clumsily revised; but rather represent Jonson's own more accommodating reconsideration of the Shakespearean era, then fast receding into history, and of his own relationship to it. The argument has been widely accepted, and helped ...
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... play: the commercial economy of Bartholomew Fair as Jonson represents it in his play; the economy of dramatic ... play's confidence in its own royally sanctioned theatricality can be seen as a calculated riposte to the 'enormity ...
... play: the commercial economy of Bartholomew Fair as Jonson represents it in his play; the economy of dramatic ... play's confidence in its own royally sanctioned theatricality can be seen as a calculated riposte to the 'enormity ...
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... 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 practice, between earlier ...
... 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 practice, between earlier ...
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... play of this sort most inflected by that 'masculinist ideology', and least open to women's self-definition, implicitly ... play's handling of gender issues is essentially tied to Jonson's self-legitimation of himself as a writer for the ...
... play of this sort most inflected by that 'masculinist ideology', and least open to women's self-definition, implicitly ... play's handling of gender issues is essentially tied to Jonson's self-legitimation of himself as a writer for the ...
Índice
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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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