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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... poet rather than a playwright ; but , as this book will argue , if he wanted to be a poetic " teacher of things ... poet " was hardly an adequate alternative description . Even court poets were little better than play- wrights , their ...
... poet as poet . In spite of his defense of poetry , for example , Sidney could not escape his own socially conditioned poetic amateurism or his courtly disdain for the activity itself of writing poetry : " I will give you a nearer ...
... poet " was used more or less interchangeably with " playmaker " to designate the profession of dramatist . Jonson attempted to enforce the distinction between " poet " on one side and " playmaker " or “ playwright " on the other ...
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