Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ValueUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 29. 5. 1997 - 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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... Bottom the weaver . In his absence , they say , their play of " Pyramus and Thisbe " cannot go for- ward . Snug the joiner comes on and tells them that the Duke has been wedded : " Masters , the Duke is coming from the temple , and ...
... Bottom might have won ( “ And the Duke had not given him sixpence a day for playing Pyramus , I'll be hang'd " [ 4.2.21–23 ] ) represents , even as it attempts to cover , the working - day instrumentality of the trades- men's " sport ...
... Bottom's absence from theatrical " sport , " and how their lack of participation in mirth has cost their compan- ions their respective rewards : Snug's " we had all been made men " parallels the mother's " We had been made women forever ...
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The Powerless Theater | 1 |
The Knowledge Marketplace | 64 |
Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
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