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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... reading of Desdemona becomes the supposed cultural norm in whose terms we should be able to under- stand the character . To be sure , this constitutes a circular interpretive method , but that does not necessarily vitiate either the ...
... Reading across the differences between literary texts and other kinds of cultural evidence allows new historicists to read for cultural re- production and contestation on a large scale.25 But " reading across " differences is also ...
... reading the " two tragical discourses . " Both theater - going and play - reading are leisure activities to be taken up " after your serious affairs and stud- ies . " But by far the greater part of Jones's advertisement for the plays is ...
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