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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... role of women within it - a factor so often overlooked in the past) had become so familiar as to seem merely natural. And Jonson's literary career, shaped between the often conflicting demands of the court, the country gentry and the 7 ...
... role of women within it - a factor so often overlooked in the past) had become so familiar as to seem merely natural. And Jonson's literary career, shaped between the often conflicting demands of the court, the country gentry and the 7 ...
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... role as an author? How did others, then and later, construe it? W. David Kay pointed out, in The Shaping of Ben Jonson's Career', the extent to which our perception of Jonson as a self-confident laureate poet, riding above the tides of ...
... role as an author? How did others, then and later, construe it? W. David Kay pointed out, in The Shaping of Ben Jonson's Career', the extent to which our perception of Jonson as a self-confident laureate poet, riding above the tides of ...
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... roles there are in his plays, and how limited in scope and stereotypical those he did write are: frigidly virtuous like Celia in Volpone or Grace Wellborn in Bartholomew Fair, morally dubious like Livia in Sejanus or Dol Common in The ...
... roles there are in his plays, and how limited in scope and stereotypical those he did write are: frigidly virtuous like Celia in Volpone or Grace Wellborn in Bartholomew Fair, morally dubious like Livia in Sejanus or Dol Common in The ...
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... role requires the boy actor/female character to adopt male disguise. In a very few cases (notably Middleton and ... roles.42 For the most part, however, plays like Jonson's Epicoene, Shakespeare's As You Like It and Twelfth Night, and ...
... role requires the boy actor/female character to adopt male disguise. In a very few cases (notably Middleton and ... roles.42 For the most part, however, plays like Jonson's Epicoene, Shakespeare's As You Like It and Twelfth Night, and ...
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... roles, before 'the masculinist ideology that shaped the modern world established its hegemony in the same period when the theaters were closed'. She sees Epicoene as the play of this sort most inflected by that 'masculinist ideology ...
... roles, before 'the masculinist ideology that shaped the modern world established its hegemony in the same period when the theaters were closed'. She sees Epicoene as the play of this sort most inflected by that 'masculinist ideology ...
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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