New Perspectives On Ben Jonson
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Author | : James E. Hirsh |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780838636879 |
Alexander Leggatt revisits the issue of the double plot in Volpone and finds that an emphasis on simple thematic parallels between the two plots distorts the dramatic significance of their relationship. As Kate D. Levin shows, conventional critical approaches have obscured both the structural peculiarities that Jonson's plays share with his masques and his occasional disregard of playhouse pragmatism.
Author | : Martin Butler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110890663X |
Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.
Author | : Sean McEvoy |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008-04-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748629912 |
This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.
Author | : Erin Julian |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1780938292 |
The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson's quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a masterpiece of wit and form about the self-delusions of greed and the theatricality of deception. This guide will be useful to a diverse assembly of students and scholars, offering fresh new ways into this challenging and fascinating play.
Author | : A. D. Cousins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009-02-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521513782 |
This study considers how Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. Renowned scholars offer perspectives on many of Jonson's major works, and together they reassess his political life in Jacobean and Caroline Britain.
Author | : Lynn S. Meskill |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2009-04-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521517435 |
This book examines the centrality of envy in the works of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's greatest literary rival.
Author | : Douglas A. Brooks |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2006-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521034869 |
Examines how Renaissance dramatists made the difficult transition from playwrights to published authors.
Author | : Allison P. Hobgood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107041287 |
Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.
Author | : Ben Jonson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2000-10-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780719015656 |
This is the 1601 quarto version of Ben Jonson's play, set in Florence. The text is edited and modernised, and instead of endorsing the folio version as the superior play, the introduction seeks to understand this version on its own terms.
Author | : Patrick Cheney |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 803 |
Release | : 2015-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 019107778X |
The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This second volume, and third to appear in the series, covers the years 1558-1660, and explores the reception of the ancient genres and authors in English Renaissance literature, engaging with the major, and many of the minor, writers of the period, including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson. Separate chapters examine the Renaissance institutions and contexts which shape the reception of antiquity, and an annotated bibliography provides substantial material for further reading.