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Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521419182
A detailed literary historical argument about the sources and consequences of Jonson's realism.
Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : OCLC:223021185
Author : John Gordon Sweeney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400857135
This book is a study of Ben Jonson's relationship with his audience in the public theater, as the relationship changed in the course of his career from the comical satires to Bartholomew Fair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Polity
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745633107
This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.
Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191615894
The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely the same time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result of this enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well as offering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair and The Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript.
Author : Kenneth S. Jackson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0874138906
"This specifically "literary" historical study situates the rather sudden emergence of madhouses ("Bedlam") on the Shakespearean stage in the sophisticated literary dispute known as the "Poets' War," wherein various dramatists, particularly Jonson and Shakespeare, argued about what drama was supposed to be. "Madness" became a rhetorical battleground of artistic ideas, and that dispute, rather than any desire to represent the actual hospital, led to the appearance of "Bedlam" on the stage."
Author : Patricia Parker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810121997
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance.
Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317893745
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 Cave,Elizabeth Schafer,Brian Woolland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134680924
Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider field of Renaissance drama, this book bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance. Ben Jonson and Theatre includes: * discussions with and between practitioners * essays on the staging of the plays * edited transcripts of interviews with contemporary practitioners The volume includes contributions from Joan Littlewood, Sam Mendes, John Nettles, Simon Russell Beale and Geoffrey Rush, Oscar-winning actor for Shine.
Author : James Loxley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134596515
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Andrew McRae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521524660
An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195169218
A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
Author : James M. Bromley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192638069
This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Dekker, extravagantly dressed male characters imagine alternatives to the prevailing modes of subjectivity, sociability, and eroticism in early modern London. While these characters are situated in hostile narrative and historical contexts, this book draws on recent work on disability, materiality, and queer temporality to rethink their relationship to those contexts in order to access the world-making possibilities of early modern queer style. In their rich representations of life in London around the turn of the seventeenth century, these plays not only were, but also remain, uniquely sensitive to the intersection of sexuality, urbanization, and material culture. The attachments and pleasures of early modern sartorial extravagance they depict can estrange us from the epistemologies that narrow current thinking about sexuality's relationship to authenticity, pedagogy, interiority, and privacy.
Author : W. David Kay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349237784
This concise biography surveys Jonson's career and provides an introduction to his works in the context of Jacobean politics, court patronage and his many literary rivalries. Stressing his wit and inventiveness, it explores the strategies by which he attempted to maintain his independence from the conditions of theatrical production and from his patrons and introduces new evidence that, despite his vaunted classicism, he repeatedly appropriated the matter or forms of other English writers in order to demonstrate his own artistic superiority.
Author : Theodore B. Leinwand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139425940
This interesting study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures. Plays discussed include Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Timon of Athens, Jonson's The Alchemist and Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts. They are paired with writings by and about the finances of the corrupt Earl of Suffolk, the privateer Walter Raleigh, the royal agent Thomas Gresham, theatre entrepreneur James Burbage, and the Lord Treasurer Lionel Cranfield. Leinwand's new readings of these texts reveal a blend of affect and cognition concerning finance that includes nostalgia, anger, contempt, embarrassment, tenacity, bravado and humility.
