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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... Politics of Literature by Jonathan Goldberg (1983) pp. 55—65; 'Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Bartholomew Fair' by Jonathan Haynes in English Literary History 51 (1984) pp. 654—68; 'Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage' by John ...
... Politics of Literature by Jonathan Goldberg (1983) pp. 55—65; 'Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Bartholomew Fair' by Jonathan Haynes in English Literary History 51 (1984) pp. 654—68; 'Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage' by John ...
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... political contexts within which literature was written, focusing on idealised traditions of thought. E. M. W. ... politics and literature.10 In recent times it has become commonplace to challenge (if not openly deride) Tillyard's thesis ...
... political contexts within which literature was written, focusing on idealised traditions of thought. E. M. W. ... politics and literature.10 In recent times it has become commonplace to challenge (if not openly deride) Tillyard's thesis ...
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... political reality but assertions of the court's place within that reality, central to its self-definition as the hub of power. If that was so, the relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political ...
... political reality but assertions of the court's place within that reality, central to its self-definition as the hub of power. If that was so, the relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political ...
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... political and cultural world as we know it. Britain saw the beginnings of capitalism, urbanisation and an empire, the first systematic use of imprisonment and lunatic asylums as forms of social control, the first significant challenge ...
... political and cultural world as we know it. Britain saw the beginnings of capitalism, urbanisation and an empire, the first systematic use of imprisonment and lunatic asylums as forms of social control, the first significant challenge ...
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... political questions, not by aesthetic and philosophical ones. The difference is often marked by use of the social ... politics of the era, often construed as an ideological struggle between absolutist monarchy and emerging oppositional ...
... political questions, not by aesthetic and philosophical ones. The difference is often marked by use of the social ... politics of the era, often construed as an ideological struggle between absolutist monarchy and emerging oppositional ...
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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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