Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ValueUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 29. 5. 1997 - Počet stran: 210 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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... represented a profound ideological threat to the Elizabethan regime ; the commerical theater represented no such threat . Clare and other “ old historicists ” are by no means alone in their belief in a powerful theater . Materialist ...
... represented itself as the gathering place of mirth . In a play like Dream , the theater is rep- resented as the embodiment of a principle of social cohesion flexible enough to accommodate diverse and even opposed groups ( along with ...
... representing women ; however , institutional conditions offer the greatest explanatory power . Broadly considered , the ... represented in opposite ways by the two playwrights . Jonson dem- onstrates the need to subordinate women to men ...
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