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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Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value Paul Yachnin. This page intentionally left blank Contents Textual Note and Abbreviations Preface 1. The Powerless Theater.
... Powerless Theater ix xi I 2. Desdemona's Voice : Historical Interpretation and the Operations of Minds 3. The Knowledge Marketplace 4. Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy 25 45 65 5. Reflections of Theater in the “ Tragic Glass ...
... theater existed in what might be called a total relationship with soci- ety , as if we could just “ read off ” truths about early modern England by paying attention to Shakespeare's plays . A powerless theater , in contrast , is a theater ...
... who have taught me about the making of value by growing into young adulthood so beautifully . My most profound obligations are recorded in the dedication . I The Powerless Theater THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT the English Renaissance xviii Preface.
... Powerless Theater THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT the English Renaissance theater was wide - ranging . Combatants argued about issues such as the Deutero- nomic prohibition against transvestism , the moral status of theatrical make - believe ...
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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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