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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... mode of valuating literature is changeable rep- resents one of the key assumptions underlying this inquiry into how Shakespeare , Jonson , and Middleton tried to assure that their plays would be seen as worthwhile . The value of theater ...
... modes . " I agree with Singh's focus on the general linkages between femininity and theatricality and with the idea that the impetus for Shakespeare's innovations in female characterization came partly in response to antitheatricalism ...
... modes " ( Singh , 117 ) . My figure for Shakespeare's feminization of theatrical power is " Gargantua's mouth . " The phrase appears in As You Like It , where , in response to Rosalind's flurry of questions and her demand to be answered ...
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