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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... political viewpoint . The commercial theater of around 1600 was similarly powerless to influence its audience toward one view or another of the political issues of the time . As we will see , its powerlessness derived in part from its ...
... political issues by producing a political message that is depoliticized ( that is , incapable of exerting deter- minate political influence ) by virtue of being bifurcated , or two- faced . Elizabethan - Jacobean playwrights developed ...
... political issues without seeming to be partisan . I am talking about tendencies in the political status of the the- ater rather than about wholesale shifts from political to nonpolitical interpretive fields . That said , we can ...
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