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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... stage, beyond that. The survival of an author beyond his immediate readership (survival in the sense of being found both readable and relevant) depends ultimately on appropriation by subsequent generations. This is never a disinterested ...
... stage, beyond that. The survival of an author beyond his immediate readership (survival in the sense of being found both readable and relevant) depends ultimately on appropriation by subsequent generations. This is never a disinterested ...
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... Stage as any wherewith the French can furnish us.2 It was from this perspective that he singled out Epicoene for what he called an examen, the first sustained piece of close critical reading in English culture, construing it as a model ...
... Stage as any wherewith the French can furnish us.2 It was from this perspective that he singled out Epicoene for what he called an examen, the first sustained piece of close critical reading in English culture, construing it as a model ...
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... stage, to locate their arcane mythology, inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within the wider cultural practices of the Jacobean/Caroline court.15 For the first time a clear equation was drawn between theatrical ...
... stage, to locate their arcane mythology, inventive staging and idealisation of the monarch firmly within the wider cultural practices of the Jacobean/Caroline court.15 For the first time a clear equation was drawn between theatrical ...
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... stage may be said to have included Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Helgerson, Louis A. Montrose and Jonathan Goldberg), who have read the culture of the period - often under the influence of Michel Foucault - almost as the New Critics once ...
... stage may be said to have included Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Helgerson, Louis A. Montrose and Jonathan Goldberg), who have read the culture of the period - often under the influence of Michel Foucault - almost as the New Critics once ...
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... stage further in collapsing the complexities of the hierarchical system of authority into the absolutist mind-set of James I himself, arguing (from a totalising post-Foucauldian, post-structuralist perspective on power) that the ...
... stage further in collapsing the complexities of the hierarchical system of authority into the absolutist mind-set of James I himself, arguing (from a totalising post-Foucauldian, post-structuralist perspective on power) that the ...
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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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