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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... Women Poets Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton and Willy Maley, Postcolonial Criticism Anita Pacheco, Early Women Writers John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler, Tragedy Andrew Michael Roberts, Joseph Conrad John Lucas, William Blake Lois ...
... Women Poets Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton and Willy Maley, Postcolonial Criticism Anita Pacheco, Early Women Writers John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler, Tragedy Andrew Michael Roberts, Joseph Conrad John Lucas, William Blake Lois ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... women and gender issues in their writing. Not all those named would accept this taxonomy, or their own placement within it, but I hope it will serve as a rough guide. Don E. Wayne's 'Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An ...
... women and gender issues in their writing. Not all those named would accept this taxonomy, or their own placement within it, but I hope it will serve as a rough guide. Don E. Wayne's 'Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An ...
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... issue of the representation of women in Renaissance drama, the (predominantly male) tradition of Jonson criticism was unanimous in its condemnation of his deficiencies in this regard. With hindsight, much of this 16 Ben Jonson.
... issue of the representation of women in Renaissance drama, the (predominantly male) tradition of Jonson criticism was unanimous in its condemnation of his deficiencies in this regard. With hindsight, much of this 16 Ben Jonson.
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... women and to Jonson), the product of a dubious gallantry. It was observed how few female 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 ...
... women and to Jonson), the product of a dubious gallantry. It was observed how few female 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 ...
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