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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... play as political allegory is indeterminate - a fact indicated by the modern scholarly dispute about the play . 34 None of the proposed topical read- ings is persuasive , and it is probably true - as Peter Saccio has said— that no ...
... play , the worse Iago's insinuations , the more she is " purified . " In other words , the play constructs two different Desdemonas : the first , a woman ca- pable of " downright violence ” ( 1.3.249 ) ; the second , “ A maiden never ...
... play as " that circle [ in which ] none durst walk but he . " 29 The " Articles of Agreement " between the spectators and " the author of Bartholomew Fair " reprise Shakespeare's affective contract with his audience , but force into ...
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