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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... audience ; and he certainly could not live without money . That is why he returned to the stage again after the failure of The New Inn , writing The Magnetic Lady ( 1632 ) and A Tale of a Tub ( 1633 ) , even after having turned his back ...
... audience in profound ways . The idea that the theater was powerful endured throughout the whole Tudor and Stuart age . However , the currency of the idea diminished considerably during the late Elizabethan and through the whole Ja ...
... audience , precisely because drama was perceived to be separate from real life and because play was per- ceived to be separate from power . ? My argument that the drama was viewed as separate from the operations of power is not meant to ...
... audience in order to supervise performances , in spite of the players ' acknowledged ability to augment and focus the ap- proved playscript in unprescribed ways , and in spite of the fact that Edmund Tilney's original commission had ...
... audience does not leave the theatre in a rebellious mood . Once again , though in a still more iron - age spirit than at the close of 1 Henry IV , the play appears to ratify the established order . ” 15 Dollimore has praised the stage ...
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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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