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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... comic theater attempted to resolve these con- tradictions in terms of the figure of mirth . Shakespeare and others developed the idea of the theater as mirth in order to reconcile the stage's divided position between commercialism and ...
... comic the- ater ? As I have suggested , the different versions of mirth in Renais- sance comedy had to do with the interests of the theater first of all . Middleton depicts a world bereft of stability — a city in which mer- chants are ...
... comic energy in Bartholo- mew Fair is to consider how the play mixes together different types of the form . The play is both festive like Dream and satirical like Mad World . In " Bartholomew Fair as Urban Arcadia : Jonson Responds to ...
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Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
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