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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... dream . ” 29 Puck begs the audience's pardon for the " weak and idle theme ” of Midsummer Night's Dream ( c . 1595 ) by suggesting that the audience itself has slumbered and dreamed the play . Middleton excuses the wicked satire of Game ...
... Dream follows naturally from the ducal instruction to make merry . Finally , both Stow and Theseus ignore the fact ... Dream undertakes to legitimate itself and Shakespeare's activity as its author whereas Stow's Survay merely ...
... Dream manages this problem by including Snug's contradiction in the larger pattern of alienation of one group from another in the play . Flute's daydream about the pension Bottom might have won ( “ And the Duke had not given him ...
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