Ben Jonson Authority Criticism

Author : R. Dutton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230372498

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Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism by R. Dutton Pdf

Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism is the first book-length study of Jonson's literary criticism, and examines the ways that criticism defines his unprecedented role as a professional author. Each chapter explores a different facet: 'The Lone Wolf' looks at Jonson's role in creating a critical discourse to respond to a new literary market-place; 'Poet and Critic' explores the relationship between his 'creative' and 'critical' writing; 'Poet and State' traces his accommodations as an author with censorship and other forms of authority; 'The Laws of Poetry' relates his appeals to classical precedent to his insecurity in a world where literary conditions were very different from those of ancient Greece and Rome; 'Jonson and Shakespeare' examines the old supposed rivalry as evidence of competing definitions of authorship. Throughout Richard Dutton suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Finally an appendix provides a representative selection of Jonson's critical work.

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349393762

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Ben Jonson Authority Criticism by Richard Dutton Pdf

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317893745

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Ben Jonson by Richard Dutton Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Burt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722424

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Licensed by Authority by Richard Burt Pdf

A dramatist whose own works were repeatedly censored early in his career and who later stood in succession to become the court censor himself, Ben Jonson embodies the contradictions and complexities of theater censorship in the early Stuart period. Focusing on Jonson's writings and the political vicissitudes of his career, Richard Burt offers a provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and Caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture. Informed by the writings of Foucault and Bourdieu, Licensed by Authority historicizes censorship, arguing that it was less a matter of denying dramatists liberty of speech than a network of productive strategies for legitimating and delegitimating specific discursive practices. Burt draws on a rich body of archival and literary evidence, including plays by Shakespeare and by Jonson's Caroline contemporaries, in order to demonstrate that censorship was nurtured and sustained not only by a culturally diverse Stuart court but also by the playwrights themselves, along with theatrical entrepreneurs, printers, poets, and critics.

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317893752

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Ben Jonson by Richard Dutton Pdf

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.

Author : William M. Russell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644531921

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Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England by William M. Russell Pdf

The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and poetics, writers such as Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, and Ben Jonson laid the foundations of critical discourse in English, and the English word "critic" began, for the first time, to suggest expertise in literary judgment. Yet the conspicuously ambivalent attitude of these critics toward criticism—and the persistent fear that they would be misunderstood, marginalized, scapegoated, or otherwise "branded with the dignity of a critic"—suggests that the position of the critic in this period was uncertain. In Inventing the Critic in Renaissance England, William Russell reveals that the critics of the English Renaissance did not passively absorb their practice from Continental and classical sources but actively invented it in response to a confluence of social and intellectual factors. Distributed for UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS

Author : Julie Sanders,Kate Chedgzoy,Susan Wiseman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349267149

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Refashioning Ben Jonson by Julie Sanders,Kate Chedgzoy,Susan Wiseman Pdf

This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the process. It includes original essays by both established and emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist and queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to encourage new approaches by students to this central figure from the Renaissance.

Author : Martin Butler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230376724

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Re-Presenting Ben Jonson by Martin Butler Pdf

Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness. This collection of essays by twelve leading scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford edition, and generated a Jonson whose Works and career look quite different. Addressing the competing needs of future readers, teachers and performers, it asks how this reconceptualized Jonson might best be transmitted into the next century. The volume also includes a new Jonson text, The Entertainment at Britain's Burse , written in 1609 to celebrate the royal opening of the Earl of Salisbury's commercial development in the Strand. Discovered in 1996, it is the most significant addition to Jonson's canon this century, and is here printed for the first time.

Author : Martin Butler,Jane Rickard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108842686

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Ben Jonson and Posterity by Martin Butler,Jane Rickard Pdf

Explores the construction of Jonson's multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

Author : Rebecca Yearling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137563996

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Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama by Rebecca Yearling Pdf

This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works—deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical—subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist.

Author : J. Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230389441

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Ben Jonson’s Theatrical Republics by J. Sanders Pdf

This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.

Author : Tom Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000798746

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Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson by Tom Harrison Pdf

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.

Author : D. Heyward Brock,Maria Palacas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810890756

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The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia by D. Heyward Brock,Maria Palacas Pdf

Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served not only as a bricklayer but also a soldier, an adventurer, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. The breadth of his experiences, acquaintances, friends, and enemies was legendary, and his literary canon is equally as diverse. The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia covers in detail the works, life, and times of this seminal figure of the English Renaissance. The cross-referenced entries include summaries of all Jonson’s plays, masques, and entertainments, as well as sketches of Jonson’s friends, enemies, patrons, disciples, actors, and fellow writers. In addition, the book identifies historical figures, mythological characters, and classical authors, as well as Jonson’s contemporaries and London place names mentioned in the works. Individuals who danced or participated in the masques and entertainments or tournaments for which Jonson wrote speeches are noted, as are the main actors known to have acted in the plays. All major scholars—from Jonson’s own day until the twenty-first century—who have commented on Jonson or his works are also included. An extensive bibliography completes this invaluable scholarly reference tool. Because of Jonson’s centrality to—and influence in and beyond—his age, this encyclopedia provides a dynamic, unparalleled vision of the English Renaissance literary scene. Capturing the depth and breadth of Jonson’s understanding of early Modern England, The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia will be especially useful for students, librarians, and academics interested in the literary and cultural scene from 1500 to 1650.

Author : A. D. Cousins,Alison V. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513784

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Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre by A. D. Cousins,Alison V. Scott Pdf

This study considers how Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. Renowned scholars offer perspectives on many of Jonson's major works, and together they reassess his political life in Jacobean and Caroline Britain.

Author : James Loxley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Jonson
ISBN : 9780415222273

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The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson by James Loxley Pdf

This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.