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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... drama - Early modern and Elizabethan , 1500-1600 — History and criticism . 2. Theater and society - England - History — 16th century . 3. Theater and society — England - History - 17th century . 4. English drama — 17th century — History ...
... drama : Come leave the loathed stage , And the more loathsome age , Where pride and impudence in faction knit , Usurp the chair of wit : Indicting and arraigning every day , Something they call a play . Let their fastidious , vain ...
... drama was broadly implicated in early modern culture , I look at that drama from the viewpoint of the interests of the theater . This is important because much recent criti- cism has regarded the drama as a mirror of the culture , as if ...
... drama , because it helps explain why playwriting seemed frivolous and unworthy as a profes- sion , and also because it discourages the unexamined idea that the theater existed in what might be called a total relationship with soci- ety ...
... drama accomplished . Nor is it to suggest that present - day academic writing is directed ex- clusively toward its own valorization . To study Shakespeare , Jonson , and Middleton's past achievement is to begin to come to terms with the ...
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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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