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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... revealing that the most sustained reference to him relates to one of the court masques; Tillyard here notes in passing that it 'is of course unthinkable that the new despotism of Tudors and Stuarts should not have exploited and enriched ...
... revealing that the most sustained reference to him relates to one of the court masques; Tillyard here notes in passing that it 'is of course unthinkable that the new despotism of Tudors and Stuarts should not have exploited and enriched ...
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... reveals itself most obviously in his insistent claim to be without tension: the oftener he protests his imperturbability, the less we are inclined to believe it.'13 Rather than the ruggedly independent, plain- speaking moralist inferred ...
... reveals itself most obviously in his insistent claim to be without tension: the oftener he protests his imperturbability, the less we are inclined to believe it.'13 Rather than the ruggedly independent, plain- speaking moralist inferred ...
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... revealing theatrical medium and the formation of modern social identity interpenetrate, with inescapable consequences for the early modern author. The nature of Jonson's view of himself, and of his relationship with his audiences, thus ...
... revealing theatrical medium and the formation of modern social identity interpenetrate, with inescapable consequences for the early modern author. The nature of Jonson's view of himself, and of his relationship with his audiences, thus ...
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... reveal about it. In this context, Jonson's usual emphases (including his silences) may be all too representative ... reveals women as commodities in an all-pervasive market governed, not necessarily by its highest bidders, but by its ...
... reveal about it. In this context, Jonson's usual emphases (including his silences) may be all too representative ... reveals women as commodities in an all-pervasive market governed, not necessarily by its highest bidders, but by its ...
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Índice
1 | |
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