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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... Writers John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler, Tragedy Andrew Michael Roberts, Joseph Conrad John Lucas, William Blake Lois Parkinson Zamora, Contemporary American Women Writers Thomas Healy, Andrew Marvell Jane Stabler, Byron Steve ...
... Writers John Drakakis and Naomi Conn Liebler, Tragedy Andrew Michael Roberts, Joseph Conrad John Lucas, William Blake Lois Parkinson Zamora, Contemporary American Women Writers Thomas Healy, Andrew Marvell Jane Stabler, Byron Steve ...
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... writing from the publishers. Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment ...
... writing from the publishers. Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment ...
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... writer - a voice and a literary definition. And that remains, I shall argue, crucial to his current critical reputation. There is a paradox in this, because no one did more ... Writing ... as he has given us the most correct 1 1 Introduction.
... writer - a voice and a literary definition. And that remains, I shall argue, crucial to his current critical reputation. There is a paradox in this, because no one did more ... Writing ... as he has given us the most correct 1 1 Introduction.
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Richard Dutton. Writing ... as he has given us the most correct Plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in ... writer whose work could not easily be revived, so time-bound was it, so heavily dependent upon topical and local ...
Richard Dutton. Writing ... as he has given us the most correct Plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in ... writer whose work could not easily be revived, so time-bound was it, so heavily dependent upon topical and local ...
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... writers whose eminence 'we can estimate ... by the earnestness and the passion and the assurance with which they surveyed the range of the universe'. It is revealing that the most sustained reference to him relates to one of the court ...
... writers whose eminence 'we can estimate ... by the earnestness and the passion and the assurance with which they surveyed the range of the universe'. It is revealing that the most sustained reference to him relates to one of the court ...
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