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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... English Renaissance theater . Writing for money , for common tastes , for performance in commercial houses before paying custom- ers — all this connected playwriting with ungentlemanly occupations such as leatherworking ( Shakespeare's ...
... Renaissance English playwrights and mod- ern humanists ( and antihumanists ) face a broadly similar dilemma , and both groups attempt to rewrite themselves in terms that will gar- ner social prestige . This element of historical ...
... English Renaissance theater was powerless . This view contradicts one of the central assumptions of historicist ... England by paying attention to Shakespeare's plays . A powerless theater , in contrast , is a theater that operates first ...
... Renaissance England . Chapter 3 explains how Shakespeare , Jonson , and Middleton at- tempted to trade their " play money " for the esteem of their fellows in the knowledge marketplace of early modern England . I outline the basic ...
... Renaissance England . Many people have supported my work toward an understanding of the institutional politics of the English Renaissance theater . At To- ronto , Alexander Leggatt , Jill Levenson , Brian Parker , G. B. Shand , and ...
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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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