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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... representation of women and the politics of gender . In all the plays that I look at in these chap- ters , Shakespeare and Jonson emerge as great opposites — the priva- tized , radically inward value of the Shakespearean theater against ...
... 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- vening in the political arena . There are of course a number of cases ...
... Representations of gender , rank , and race in the plays are to be equated with the conditions of gender , rank , and race in the society at large . Issues of institutional speci- ficity - how plays served the particular interests of ...
... representations . " 16 On the other side , Greenblatt is able to take account of the apparent subversiveness of the ... representations of history — especially tragic representations — should be viewed as practices that intervened in ...
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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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