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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... field or in terms of some foundational value dif- ferent from the interpretive field and the valuelessness or cultural weightlessness of the powerless theater . They attempted this rein- scription in ways that were conditioned by ...
... field that had space for a range of tragic forms . To begin to get a more detailed idea of the complexity of that field , let us consider represen- tative passages from the plays that are of principal concern here . The first is from ...
... field's claims to transcendence and the public field's limitation of heroic energy . C. L. Barber explains that " Tamburlaine is a strange , anomalous work because it embodies the release of energy characteristic of Elizabethan tragedy ...
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