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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... represent 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 ...
... represent it in a completely unburdened or original way . In large measure , plays remained marginal or even " counterfeit " texts . For this reason , the plays are the register of the playwrights ' con- sciousness of their own ...
... represent the players ( in relation to whom the commercial - theater audience is gentrified ) , but the tradesmen are also not the players - they are a vulgar parody of the players in con- trast to which the players themselves appear to ...
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