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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... culture , I look at that drama from the viewpoint of the interests of the theater . This is important because much recent criti- cism has regarded the drama as a mirror of the culture , as if it had no particular institutional content ...
... culture is not only to grasp the opera- tion of certain formative discourses and practices but also to under- stand how that culture seemed to the people who lived in it . Any attempt to gain historical knowledge involves moreover a ...
... culture nor the degree of power the theater possessed . Indeed , since power is seen as circulating everywhere , not ... culture . The only reason to think that the theater mattered in some special way to the development of early modern ...
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