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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... Elizabeth's reign . Numerous factors contributed to the creation of the conditions that governed the stage . First was censorship , which as Patterson has argued , forced writers to develop strategies of indeterminacy ( Pat- terson's ...
... Elizabeth's fear of the drama , however , was not likely to have been occasioned by the players themselves . Indeed , over the next forty years the Queen generally supported the players , especially in the face of the city's opposition ...
... Elizabeth and James — not even Jonson - was prosecuted for libel whereas nonliterary writers were generally subject to much harsher treatment.51 As we have seen , the author of Richard II and the players who staged it on the eve of the ...
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