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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... characters who suffer and learn ; but Jonson gives us flat , or two - dimensional , characters who , since they are incapable of in- ward and revelatory suffering , seem to belong to satire rather than tragedy.3 What are the origins of ...
... character or scene is subject to the full range of interpretive stresses . The first position is dominant and the other two are attached to specific characters . Bianca is most prominently the character who seems transcendent over ...
... characters are impressive in another register . Some , such as the Ladies Collegiate , Madam Would - be , and Ursula are figures of appetitive sin . With Lady Haughty and her fellows , Jonson follows the kind of technique Shakespeare ...
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