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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... dramatic verse at which Jonson excelled. The dominant literary history of the mid-twentieth century (especially the literary history of the English Renaissance) largely effaced the social, economic and political contexts within which ...
... dramatic verse at which Jonson excelled. The dominant literary history of the mid-twentieth century (especially the literary history of the English Renaissance) largely effaced the social, economic and political contexts within which ...
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... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively different analysis . Published in 1937 , it was a remarkably early ( in British terms ) response to the Marxist agenda , which related the drama of Jonson - challengingly ...
... Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson offered a distinctively different analysis . Published in 1937 , it was a remarkably early ( in British terms ) response to the Marxist agenda , which related the drama of Jonson - challengingly ...
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... dramatic verse , and has a variety of implications for what we mean when we talk of the ' realism ' or ' realistic texture ' of Jonsonian drama , which are carefully crafted artistic effects , not merely ( as earlier critics often ...
... dramatic verse , and has a variety of implications for what we mean when we talk of the ' realism ' or ' realistic texture ' of Jonsonian drama , which are carefully crafted artistic effects , not merely ( as earlier critics often ...
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... drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re- examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been at the heart of the criticism ...
... drama (indeed, all literature) to the social and political structures of its day needed to be re- examined. So Orgel lit the fuse for the re-historicisation of Renaissance literary studies, which has been at the heart of the criticism ...
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... drama; the rise and definition of the literary profession; the 'birth' of the modern author; the origins of literary criticism as a cultural practice from which that in the modern academy is lineally descended – these are all central to ...
... drama; the rise and definition of the literary profession; the 'birth' of the modern author; the origins of literary criticism as a cultural practice from which that in the modern academy is lineally descended – these are all central to ...
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Introduction | |
An Alternative View 3 JOHN G SWEENEY III Sejanus and the Peoples Beastly Rage 4 JONATHAN GOLDBERG State Secrets 5 STANLEY FISH A... | |
Volpone 7 MARY BETH ROSE The Expense of Spirit | |
CHERYL LYNN Ross The Plague of The Alchemist | |
JONATHAN HAYNES Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonsons Bartholomew Fair | |
MARTIN BUTLER Late Jonson | |
Further Reading | |
Index | |
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