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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... 'Authors—Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same' by Stanley Fish in Representations 7 (1984), © 1984 by the Regents of the University of California. 1 Introduction The history If Shakespeare was 'not of an Vi Acknowledgements.
... 'Authors—Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same' by Stanley Fish in Representations 7 (1984), © 1984 by the Regents of the University of California. 1 Introduction The history If Shakespeare was 'not of an Vi Acknowledgements.
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... representation of the period that we have. In studying it we are observing our origins before they became overlaid ... representations in literature and elsewhere, which bound it together as a distinctively different historical era: some ...
... representation of the period that we have. In studying it we are observing our origins before they became overlaid ... representations in literature and elsewhere, which bound it together as a distinctively different historical era: some ...
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... of the representation of women in Renaissance drama, the (predominantly male) tradition of Jonson criticism was unanimous in its condemnation of his deficiencies in this regard. With hindsight, much of this 16 Ben Jonson.
... of the representation of women in Renaissance drama, the (predominantly male) tradition of Jonson criticism was unanimous in its condemnation of his deficiencies in this regard. With hindsight, much of this 16 Ben Jonson.
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... representation of women, but the significance of the practice is far from clear-cut. Since the practice was universal (in England, if not in other parts of Europe) it might amount to a neutral convention, taken for granted in a culture ...
... representation of women, but the significance of the practice is far from clear-cut. Since the practice was universal (in England, if not in other parts of Europe) it might amount to a neutral convention, taken for granted in a culture ...
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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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