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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... representing: 'Where other baroque writers explicitly dramatise their tensions, in Jonson the tensions remain buried ... represents. Many of the works that have focused since on Jonson's style and poetic strategies - especially in his ...
... representing: 'Where other baroque writers explicitly dramatise their tensions, in Jonson the tensions remain buried ... represents. Many of the works that have focused since on Jonson's style and poetic strategies - especially in his ...
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... represented as a place where author and audience are joined in the communal celebration of a traditional code of behavior and in the censure of those who violate the code', which 'overlooks the ways in which Jonson is himself implicated ...
... represented as a place where author and audience are joined in the communal celebration of a traditional code of behavior and in the censure of those who violate the code', which 'overlooks the ways in which Jonson is himself implicated ...
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... 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 to create the climate in which ...
... 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 to create the climate in which ...
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... represents it in his play; the economy of dramatic relations within the play; and the theatrical economy of relations with the audience ... its parts are interrelated and interdependent, and were changing together as part of the same ...
... represents it in his play; the economy of dramatic relations within the play; and the theatrical economy of relations with the audience ... its parts are interrelated and interdependent, and were changing together as part of the same ...
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... represented in the 1616 Works. It ignores (as Anne Barton was among the first to point out) a much more complex and sympathetic treatment of women in later plays, notably The Devil is An Ass and The New Inn; it also ignores his ...
... represented in the 1616 Works. It ignores (as Anne Barton was among the first to point out) a much more complex and sympathetic treatment of women in later plays, notably The Devil is An Ass and The New Inn; it also ignores his ...
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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