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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... SEJANUS ( 1603 ) not as good as Hamlet ( c . 1600 ) ? While Hamlet has had its detractors and Sejanus its defenders , there is no doubt that Shakespeare's play is generally held to be better than Jon- son's.1 Invidious comparison ...
... Sejanus is showily recommending Tiberius for the honor that Tiberius has made a show of refusing : ' Tis your most courtly , known confederacy , To have your private parasite [ Sejanus ] redeem What he [ Tiberius ] , in public subtlety ...
... Sejanus itself was staged . Furthermore , if Tiberius is a figure of the playwright Jonson ( as Gordon Sweeney has argued ) , 29 he can also be seen as a figure of Shakespeare . Like Shakespeare , Tiberius emphasizes the ...
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