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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... relationship with the world he was representing: 'Where other baroque writers explicitly dramatise their tensions, in Jonson the tensions remain buried . .. The presence of tension in Jonson reveals itself most obviously in his ...
... relationship with the world he was representing: 'Where other baroque writers explicitly dramatise their tensions, in Jonson the tensions remain buried . .. The presence of tension in Jonson reveals itself most obviously in his ...
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... relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re-examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been ...
... relationship of all Renaissance drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re-examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been ...
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... relationship with the public audience, but equally oblique relationship with the court; in its exploration of liberty and licence as mirror images of each other, in ways that border on madness; in its problematisation of moral authority ...
... relationship with the public audience, but equally oblique relationship with the court; in its exploration of liberty and licence as mirror images of each other, in ways that border on madness; in its problematisation of moral authority ...
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... relations with God. Because it was all these things, it was also a psychological system: the assumptions behind it inevitably affected how people thought about themselves, others, and their mutual interactions. Patronage, or one's place ...
... relations with God. Because it was all these things, it was also a psychological system: the assumptions behind it inevitably affected how people thought about themselves, others, and their mutual interactions. Patronage, or one's place ...
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... relationship with his audiences, thus emerges as paradigmatic of writing practices in general at that time. Jonson's tetchy relationship with the live audiences of his plays (who 'cried down' the first performances of at least three ...
... relationship with his audiences, thus emerges as paradigmatic of writing practices in general at that time. Jonson's tetchy relationship with the live audiences of his plays (who 'cried down' the first performances of at least three ...
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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