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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... moral instructiveness of poetry central to his Apologie , acknowledged as well that poetry was not powerful- " poor poetry , which from almost the highest estimation of learning is fallen to be the laughingstock of children . ” 19 ...
... moral determinations because Middleton's emphasis on her psycho- logical complexity tends to promote audience identification rather than judgment.35 Like Hamlet , she can be explained but not under- stood by reference to a moral ...
... moral or political convictions : " Middleton had earlier specialized in vicious satire on women . Now , something had dawned on him . If he were alive today , Middleton would be selling a lot of Tide . " 12 If we put aside Woodbridge's ...
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