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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... Middleton and Shakespeare's rewritings of theater and play- writing tend to be implicit rather than explicit . On one occasion , Middleton advertises his profession , but even then it is far more low - key than Jonson's braggadocio self ...
... Middleton was guided by market conditions rather than by moral or political convictions : " Middleton had earlier specialized in vicious satire on women . Now , something had dawned on him . If he were alive today , Middleton would be ...
... Middleton's Game at Chess be- cause in writing it Middleton had capitalized on Jonson's masque Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion ( 1624 ) , which , incidentally , was never per- formed , its place at court on the night ...
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