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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... virtue of its capacity to inculcate virtue , good on account of its promotion of the vernacular , good because it distracts people from their troubles , good for its opening up of a critical view on the dominant culture , good because ...
... virtue of the fact that the person is constituted as other than his public identity , Jonson's public subjects are able ( because they do not " see through " their own identities ) to " stand and unfold themselves " in determi- nate ...
... virtue male , Or masculine vice , a female virtue be : You shall it see Proved with increase , I know to speak , and she to hold her peace . ( 2.3.114-19 ) Similarly , Morose celebrates his impending marriage to Epicoene ( “ a dumb ...
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