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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... 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.
... social prestige . While some other critics emphasize how the drama was broadly implicated in early modern culture , I look at that drama from the viewpoint of the interests of the theater . This is important because much recent criti ...
... social and political power of the drama , because it helps explain why playwriting seemed frivolous and unworthy as a profes- sion , and also because it discourages the unexamined idea that the theater existed in what might be called a ...
... social milieus of the three men tended to influence the way they con- structed their own legitimacy . Shakespeare's bourgeois background helped shape his career and the particular values that he promoted within his plays , just as ...
... Social Sciences and Humanities Re- search Council of Canada for providing the funding that made my research possible in the first place . I am thankful for the published work of Jonathan Dollimore , Stephen Greenblatt , and Louis Mon ...
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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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