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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... institutional level can enable broader cultural analysis by speci- fying how the theater's representations of the world served its own interests first of all , and hence how those representations refracted rather than reflected the ...
... institutional factors . That our un- derstanding of the past is situated in the present does not mean , how- ever , that we cannot possess real historical knowledge . Instead , it means that historical knowledge is dialectical through ...
... institutional motives , for the particular direction each playwright took in representing women ; however , institutional conditions offer the greatest explanatory power . Broadly considered , the three writers line up on opposite sides ...
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