Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ValueUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 29. 5. 1997 - Počet stran: 210 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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... Measure for Measure can be read in terms of the dialectical trans- formation of theatrical mirth between the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods , and as implicated in and responsive to the ideologically bur- dened position of the theater ...
... Measure represents itself in terms of a different kind of comic payoff . The working - day atmosphere , presided over by a subdramatist who must wrest success from a mirthless play world by dint of laborious and even tedious theatrics ...
... Measure , in con- trast , " sport " has exclusively a sexual meaning , and is always illicit- productive of deceit ... Measure channeled it in creative ways . Measure argued for its own value by providing its audiences , themselves ...
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