Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ValueUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1. 9. 2015 - Počet stran: 232 To many of their contemporaries, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were little more than artisanal craftsmen, "stage-wrights" who wrote plays for money, to be performed in common playhouses and in a manner often antithetical to what Jonson himself viewed as the higher calling of poetry. In response to the conflicting pressures of censorship and commercialism, Paul Yachnin contends, players and dramatists alike had promulgated the idea of drama's irrelevance, creating a recreational theater that failed to influence its audience in any purposeful way. |
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... Elizabethan , 1500-1600 — History and criticism . 2. Theater and society - England - History — 16th century . 3. Theater and society — England - History - 17th century . 4. English drama — 17th century — History and criticism . 5 ...
... Elizabethan Stage . 4 vols . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1923 . HSS Orgel Parfitt Ben Jonson . Ed . C. H. Herford , Percy Simpson , and Eve- lyn Simpson . II vols . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1925–52 . Ben Jonson : The Complete Masques ...
... Elizabethan and Jacobean plays negotiated between the socially degraded activity of playwriting and the dramatists ' desire for social prestige . While some other critics emphasize how the drama was broadly implicated in early modern ...
... Elizabethan playwrights , and advertised that plays were separate from the opera- tions of power.5 As a result of both the vigor of Elizabethan govern- ment censorship and the compliance of the players with that censor- ship , the ...
... Elizabethan theater , Louis Mon- trose rightly criticizes naive arguments about theatrical power but depends upon the merely theoretical claim that the drama caused a far - reaching rethinking of personhood and politics . I suggest that ...
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Historical Interpretation and the Operations of Minds | 25 |
3 The Knowledge Marketplace | 45 |
4 Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 65 |
5 Reflections of Theater in the Tragic Glass from Marlowe to Middleton | 93 |
Orality Voice and the Gender of Theatrical Power | 129 |
Notes | 171 |
Works Cited | 193 |
Index | 205 |
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