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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... work. But Orgel's emphasis on the creation of art that celebrates the king and his court is translated into a perspective in which the royal will dictates the terms of literary subjectivity, not only at 10 Ben Jonson.
... work. But Orgel's emphasis on the creation of art that celebrates the king and his court is translated into a perspective in which the royal will dictates the terms of literary subjectivity, not only at 10 Ben Jonson.
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... royal authority, as power and meaning, reality and imagination, become synonymous and interchangeable categories. Jonson (like Donne and other contemporaries) is thus an involuntary agent in the agenda of power, replicating in his ...
... royal authority, as power and meaning, reality and imagination, become synonymous and interchangeable categories. Jonson (like Donne and other contemporaries) is thus an involuntary agent in the agenda of power, replicating in his ...
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... Puritan hypocrisy speaks to James's tetchy relationship with the strongly Sabbatarian Addled Parliament and some of the judiciary - and underlying tensions between upholders of the royal prerogative and proponents 15 Introduction.
... Puritan hypocrisy speaks to James's tetchy relationship with the strongly Sabbatarian Addled Parliament and some of the judiciary - and underlying tensions between upholders of the royal prerogative and proponents 15 Introduction.
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... royal licensing of popular entertainment as a complex cultural practice which calls into question the terms of much of the modern debate about the politics of early Stuart theatre, often polarised between absolutist royal authority on ...
... royal licensing of popular entertainment as a complex cultural practice which calls into question the terms of much of the modern debate about the politics of early Stuart theatre, often polarised between absolutist royal authority on ...
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... royal household. Moreover, at a time when women could not appear on the public stages, court masques provided one of the very few contexts in which women might perform (if not speak), and so in a sense express themselves. They might ...
... royal household. Moreover, at a time when women could not appear on the public stages, court masques provided one of the very few contexts in which women might perform (if not speak), and so in a sense express themselves. They might ...
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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