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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... Operations of Minds 3. The Knowledge Marketplace 4. Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy 25 45 65 5. Reflections ... Power 129 Notes Works Cited Index 171 193 205 This page intentionally left blank Textual Note and Abbreviations All ...
... power of the drama , because it helps explain why playwriting seemed ... operations of power and the operations of minds . In Chapter 2 , I articulate this assump- tion and ... operations of minds alongside the operations of xiv Preface.
... operations of minds alongside the operations of power . To understand a past culture is not only to grasp the opera- tion of certain formative discourses and practices but also to under- stand how that culture seemed to the people who ...
... power . ? My argument that the drama was viewed as separate from the operations of power is not meant to imply that the theater was with- out real historical consequences . But a historical understanding of the early modern 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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