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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... common tastes , for performance in commercial houses before paying custom- ers - all this connected playwriting with ungentlemanly occupations such as leatherworking ( Shakespeare's first trade ) and bricklaying ( where Jonson started ...
... common herd of playgoers ( HSS , 5 : 283 ) . The Alchemist's pref- ace elaborates what he calls in Hymenaei ( 1606 ) the " noble and just advantage that the things subjected to understanding have of those which are objected to sense ...
... common " theater , the boys at times sending up the vulgarity of the " public " theater , as in the remark that " the hair about the hat [ of a prostitute ] is as good as a flag upo'th ' pole at a common playhouse to waft company . " 15 ...
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