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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... to what he believed to be the absolute difference between the transcendent value of the poet and the social degra- dation of the men who worked like manual laborers within the " loathed " public sphere of the playhouse . Jonson Preface.
... poet rather than a playwright ; but , as this book will argue , if he wanted to be a poetic " teacher of things ... poet " was hardly an adequate alternative description . Even court poets were little better than play- wrights , their ...
... poet as poet . In spite of his defense of poetry , for example , Sidney could not escape his own socially conditioned poetic amateurism or his courtly disdain for the activity itself of writing poetry : “ I will give you a nearer ...
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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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