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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... relationship with his audiences , thus emerges as paradigmatic of writing practices in general at that time . Jonson's tetchy relationship with the live audiences of his plays ( who ' cried down ' the first performances of at least ...
... relationship with his audiences , thus emerges as paradigmatic of writing practices in general at that time . Jonson's tetchy relationship with the live audiences of his plays ( who ' cried down ' the first performances of at least ...
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... relationship with the market - place of print was by no means unproblematic either . The 1616 Works is often seen as a landmark in the developing primacy of print culture ( with all that implies about the passing of a culture based on ...
... relationship with the market - place of print was by no means unproblematic either . The 1616 Works is often seen as a landmark in the developing primacy of print culture ( with all that implies about the passing of a culture based on ...
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... relationship to it. The argument has been widely accepted, and helped to create the climate in which late plays like The New Inn and The Devil is an Ass could be revived on the professional stage (the RSC at The Swan, in 1987 and 1995 ...
... relationship to it. The argument has been widely accepted, and helped to create the climate in which late plays like The New Inn and The Devil is an Ass could be revived on the professional stage (the RSC at The Swan, in 1987 and 1995 ...
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... relationship with the strongly Sabbatarian Addled Parliament and some of the judiciary – and underlying tensions between upholders of the royal prerogative and proponents of more representative government . For Marcus it is always clear ...
... relationship with the strongly Sabbatarian Addled Parliament and some of the judiciary – and underlying tensions between upholders of the royal prerogative and proponents of more representative government . For Marcus it is always clear ...
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... relationships between the sexes become metaphors for, or indistinguishable from, these conditions. Mary Beth Rose's piece on Epicoene, reprinted here, pursues these questions with particular attention to two of the play's most ...
... relationships between the sexes become metaphors for, or indistinguishable from, these conditions. Mary Beth Rose's piece on Epicoene, reprinted here, pursues these questions with particular attention to two of the play's most ...
Índice
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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