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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... claims to be able to provide spiritual uplift or political leadership to our students and readers are sometimes regarded with approbation , but more generally with skepticism , especially by those outside the academy . Both Renaissance ...
... claim that the theater was powerless rather than powerful is based on the historical record , but it is also grounded in a theoretical assumption about the relationship between the operations of power and the operations of minds . In ...
... claims about theatrical value , and his plays put into action the full dialogism of a brilliantly parodic dramatic art . Overall , the tripartite competitive rewriting of theater is carried on in terms of private , public , and parodic ...
... claim that the drama caused a far - reaching rethinking of personhood and politics . I suggest that the local , historical meaning of the drama can be recovered only in terms of Elizabethan - Jacobean political , social , and literary ...
... claim that the theater had been partly responsible for the breakdown of social order leading up to the Civil War . " Is it too am- bitious , " Dollimore writes , " to see . . . a relationship between the drama and the English revolution ...
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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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Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ... Paul Yachnin Zobrazení fragmentů - 1997 |