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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... suggest that such a recognition might make it easier for us to take into account the constructive freedom and agency of Shake- speare , Jonson , and Middleton as they worked to enhance their own worth in what I call “ the knowledge ...
... suggest that the local , historical meaning of the drama can be recovered only in terms of Elizabethan - Jacobean political , social , and literary cultures , and also in terms of the contemporary separation of literary from nonliterary ...
... suggest that the authorities must have thought that the theater 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 ...
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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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