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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... ideological dilemma , the commercial dramatists 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 ...
... ideological forces utterly beyond their con- trol or awareness . Chapters 4 , 5 , and 6 are devoted , respectively , to the dramatists ' redescriptions of theater in the two principal Renaissance genres of comedy and tragedy , and in ...
... ideological threat to the Elizabethan regime ; the commerical theater represented no such threat . Clare and other “ old historicists " are by no means alone in their belief in a powerful theater . Materialist criticism of approximately ...
... ideology of order . One can certainly imagine Stubbes agreeing with Dollimore's 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 ...
... ideological legitimation were subjected to sceptical , interroga- tive and subversive representations . " 16 On the other side , Greenblatt is able to take account of the apparent subversiveness of the theater by positioning subversion ...
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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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