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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... theater . 11 Not surprisingly , Clare's assumption that the theater was seen to be powerful makes it difficult for her to explain the general leniency of the government with regard to the players — the ... theater The Powerless Theater 5.
... theater 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 ...
... theater . Thus the Athenian tradesmen 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 ...
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