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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... course , the players were often able to treat political matters without having to resort to evasion . Plays such as Lyly's Midas ( 1589 ) , Robert Wilson's The Three Lords and Three Ladies of London ( published 1590 ) , and Dekker's The ...
... course in the field of the private . In the private , as Shakespeare rep- resented it , what was most valuable was precisely what was beyond representation and so outside the public , political sphere . As a con- sequence of this ...
... course of action when one lusts after another man's wife , the same murder , especially when carried out by another , contradicts the de- mands of the honor code and , of course , is irreconcilable with the ideal of a virtuous life ...
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