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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... status of the activity of writing poetry and the power of poetry to influence its readers were both controversial issues . Courtier - poets found their activity burdened by the contradictions consequent upon their own undisclosed com ...
... status . These were money and blood— on the one side a mercantile standard where property conferred status , and on the other a metaphysics of rank passed from father to son through the bloodline . Of course neither wealth nor blood on ...
... status in the unconventional institution of the theater must have seemed arduous and largely ineffective . Jonson's abandonment of the stage during the years of his ascendancy at court ( 1616–26 ) suggests that he saw the pointlessness ...
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