Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0742685675
Lovers Made Men
Ben Jonson
Lovers Made Men
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Lovers Made Men
Ben Jonson
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:314942719
Lovers Made Men by Ben Jonson Pdf
Nicholas Lanier
MichaelI. Wilson
Author : MichaelI. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351556385
Nicholas Lanier by MichaelI. Wilson Pdf
Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666) was not only the first person to hold the office of Master of the Music to King Charles I, he was also a practising painter, a friend of Rubens, Van Dyck and many other artists of his time, and one of the very first great art collectors and connoisseurs. He is especially remembered for the part he played in acquiring, on behalf of Charles I, the famous collection of paintings belonging to the Gonzaga family of Mantua. Many of these paintings still form an important part of the Royal Collection today. In this book the different strands of Lanier's colourful life are for the first time drawn together and presented in a single compelling narrative.
A Book of Masques
Gerald Eades Bentley
Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1967-04-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521054559
A Book of Masques by Gerald Eades Bentley Pdf
The English court masque was one of the most extravagant and spectacular forms of entertainment ever produced, the most important period being between 1600 and 1640 when the writers included some of the best-known poets and dramatists of the age. This volume, first published in 1967, was the first selection of masques to be published in England in the twentieth century. It consists of fourteen masques, each specially edited with an introduction and commentary by a different scholar, including Ben Jonson, James Shirley, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Campion, Francis Beaumont, William Browne, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Nabbes and William Davenant. Professor Gerald Eades Bentley examines the masque as Jonson conceived it and the clash that took place between Jonson and his collaborator as designer, Inigo Jones. There is also a final essay on the influence of the masque on the drama of the period. A group of 48 plates has been prepared many of them reproducing designs by Inigo Jones.
Jonson and the Contexts of His Time
Robert C. Evans
Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literature and history
ISBN : 0838752683
Jonson and the Contexts of His Time by Robert C. Evans Pdf
"Ben Jonson was one of the most important writers of the English Renaissance, and this study both reflects and contributes to the growing focus on the concrete details of his art and career. By examining specific works, particular historical circumstances, and complex relations with various individuals, author Robert C. Evans tries to locate Jonson's writings in the contexts that helped shape their artistry." "This book presumes that the more one knows about Jonson's various contexts, the more richly one can appreciate the complicated significance of the texts he produced. In fact, a major purpose of the book is the presentation of new archival data. The individual chapters all assume that Jonson could not ignore his relations with other people and the effects that those relations might have had on his life and writings." "The first chapter raises explicitly many of the questions involved in the historical study of literature, contributing to recent dialogue about the meaning and value of the so-called New Historicism. This chapter also offers one of the few sustained examinations of one of Jonson's most typical and significant poems, the epistle to Edward Sackville." "Chapter 2 suggests why Jonson's relations with rivals and patrons were particularly significant. It discusses one of his most important rivalries - the "poetomachia" - and its significance for the early years of his life as a writer. The chapter then jumps to the end of Jonson's career and emphasizes works he addressed to the Earl of Newcastle, one of his most important later patrons. This initial emphasis on patronage and rivalry recurs in one way or another in all the subsequent chapters, which follow a roughly chronological scheme." "Chapter 3 looks at the earliest and perhaps still the best of Jonson's great plays, Volpone, and explores new evidence suggesting that Jonson may have used this comedy to mock a powerful and wellknown contemporary. Chapter 4 explores The Devil is an Ass (1616) and attempts to suggest the very complicated political and social circumstances in which it was enmeshed. Chapter 5 tries to show how the important masque entitled Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue offered a detailed response to another aristocratic entertainment written a few months earlier, and chapter 6 surveys the poet's apparently contentious relations with the highly talented Thomas Campion." "Chapters 7 and 8 focus on the closing years of Jonson's career. They explore his little-known friendship with Joseph Webbe, an important language theorist whose ideas were quite controversial at the time, and examine Jonson's relations with significant Caroline patrons in an attempt to show the complicated ways in which the patronage "system" - so often discussed in the abstract could operate in actuality. A brief afterword summarizes some of the general critical assumptions on which all the preceding chapters are based."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. : Supplementary to A List of English Plays
Walter Wilson Greg
Author : Walter Wilson Greg
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. : Supplementary to A List of English Plays by Walter Wilson Greg Pdf
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c.
Walter Wilson Greg
Author : Walter Wilson Greg
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
A List of Masques, Pageants, &c. by Walter Wilson Greg Pdf
Ben Jonson
David Riggs
Author : David Riggs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674255876
Ben Jonson by David Riggs Pdf
Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the “great refiner” who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant images of folly and deceit. He was also a celebrated reprobate and an ambitious entrepreneur. David Riggs illuminates every facet of this extraordinary career, giving us the first major biography of Jonson in over sixty years. The story of Jonson's life provides a broad view of the literary procession in early modern England and the milieu in which Elizabethan drama was produced. Beginning as a journeyman actor, Jonson was soon a novice playwright; his first important play was staged in 1598, with Shakespeare in the cast. He was by turns the self-styled leader of a literary elite, a writer of court masques, the first dramatist to publish his own Works, a royal pensioner, and a genteel poet. As Jonson transformed himself from an artisan into a gentleman, his need to transcend his class origins led him to murder, to his notorious quarrels with Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and Inigo Jones, and to his lifelong rivalry with Shakespeare. Riggs traces the roots of Jonson's aggressiveness back to the turmoil of his childhood and adolescence. He offers new and convincing accounts of Jonson's latent hostility toward his bricklayer stepfather, his reckless marriage to Anne Lewis, and his conflicted relationships with his children. This vivid portrait synthesizes six decades of scholarship and new historical evidence. Sixty halftones beautifully illustrate the story and capture the spirit of the age. With Riggs' original interpretations of Jonson's masterpieces and lesser known works, Ben Jonson: A Life will prove the standard account of this complex man's life and works for many years to come.
The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia
D. Heyward Brock,Maria Palacas
Author : D. Heyward Brock,Maria Palacas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810890756
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.
The Theatre of Praise
Joanne Altieri
Author : Joanne Altieri
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0874132754
The Theatre of Praise by Joanne Altieri Pdf
A critical examination of panegyrical theatre from its beginnings in the masque, city pageant, and history plays to its varied culmination on the Restoration musical stage.
Craftmanship in Context
Judith Kegan Gardiner
Author : Judith Kegan Gardiner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110878004
Craftmanship in Context by Judith Kegan Gardiner Pdf
Foundations of English Opera
Edward Joseph Dent
Author : Edward Joseph Dent
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Dramatic music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Foundations of English Opera by Edward Joseph Dent Pdf
Ben Jonson
Richard Dutton
Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317893752
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.
Ben Jonson
Alexander Leggatt
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315304892
Ben Jonson by Alexander Leggatt Pdf
While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson’s vision as a whole. The author points to the inner connections that make of the rich variety of Jonson’s writing a single coherent body of work. We see Jonson exploring the relations between culture and society, the difficulties of ideal virtue in a far from ideal world, and above all the problems of art itself. Combining a wide-ranging discussion of Jonson’s interests with a detailed examination of his major works, this book provides a balanced critical introduction to one of the most complex and fascinating figures in English Literature.
Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690
a foreword by Lisa Jardine
Author : a foreword by Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351921916
Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690 by a foreword by Lisa Jardine Pdf
Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety of contemporary sources comes under scrutiny, including letters, diaries, plays, treatises, translations and poetry. The extent to which the richness and disparateness of these modes of writing militates against or constructs a recognisable 'rhetoric' of exile is one of the book's overriding themes. Also under consideration is the degree to which exilic writing in this period is intended for public consumption, a product of private reflection, or characterised by a coalescence of the two. Importantly, this volume extends the chronological range of the English Revolution beyond 1660 by demonstrating that exile during the Restoration formed a meaningful continuum with displacement during the civil wars of the mid-century. This in-depth and overdue study of prominent and hitherto obscure exiles, conspicuously diverse in political and religious allegiance yet inextricably bound by the shared experience of displacement, will be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines.
