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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... seems to be saying that his " art " is outside the marketplace of commodified entertainment . He writes for " understanders " rather than for spectators . Spectators are tickled and cheated by dances and antics , but his literary text ...
... seems to be inviting spectators to think of him as a poet , and slyly suggesting the transcendent worth of his poetic imagination , when he has Theseus opine on the subject of lunatics , lovers , and poets . And as has long been ...
... seems . " ' Tis not alone my inky cloak , good mother , Nor customary suits of solemn black , Nor windy suspiration ... seem , For they are actions that a man might play , 96 Chapter 5.
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The Powerless Theater | 1 |
The Knowledge Marketplace | 64 |
Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
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