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. |
Vyhledávání v knize
Výsledky 1-5 z 54
... attempted to redescribe play- writing in legitimate terms , wresting positive meanings from the debased language surrounding their paid work in the common play- house . Jonson's boldest bid for literary legitimacy was the 1616 folio ...
... attempt to rewrite themselves in terms that will gar- ner social prestige . This element of historical continuity underpins my local , institutionalist focus . While culturalist critics tend to ex- clude what connects them with what ...
... attempt to gain historical knowledge involves moreover a recogni- tion of what Gadamer calls our situatedness in " the web of historical effects . " I suggest that such a recognition might make it easier for us to take into account the ...
... attempts to bind a performance of Hamlet at the Globe in 1600 to the execution of King Charles in 1649.8 Such narratives are doubly unhistorical : they refuse to localize and they assume the operation of a causal chain that is incapable ...
... attempted coup d'état.12 More striking still are the differences between the government's successful suppression of sacred , Catholic drama on the one side and its toleration of the commercial theater which replaced that drama on the ...
Obsah
1 | |
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 |
Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny
Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ... Paul Yachnin Zobrazení fragmentů - 1997 |