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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... Jonson's nonce word , a term parallel to " playwright " ( possibly also a Jonsonian coinage ) ; both words point to what he believed to be the absolute difference between the transcendent value of the poet and the social degra- dation ...
... Jonson , and Middleton as they worked to enhance their own worth in what I call “ the knowledge marketplace ” of Renaissance England . Chapter 3 explains how Shakespeare , Jonson , and ... Jonsonian . Middleton's relationship Preface XV.
Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value Paul Yachnin. public , political worth of the Jonsonian . Middleton's relationship to this central contest is complicated : having perhaps learned the tech- niques of ...
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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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