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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... represented the issues of the moment . Nevertheless , I suggest that these representations were usually seen to subsist in a field of discourse isolated from the real world , and that such representations were seen as incapable of inter ...
... represented a powerful threat to the government itself ; and many scholars have indeed been per- suaded that the stage was generally viewed as a significant political force in Renaissance England . But while the punishments could be ...
... represented a profound 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 ...
... representing it.1 Dollimore's sample of contemporary views on early modern tragedy indicates that the idea of a powerful literature - even a pow- erful theater - did persist ; however , the sample is unrepresentative of the views of ...
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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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