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Author | : Isaac Hui |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474423485 |
Through studying Volpone's three bastard children, this book discusses how Jonson's comedies are built upon the tension between death, castration and nothingness on one hand, and the comic slippage of identities in the city on the other.
Author | : Maggie Vinter |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082328428X |
Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grief than as an action to be performed, well or badly. Active deaths belie narratives of helplessness and loss through which mortality is too often read and instead suggest how marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some early modern strategies for dying resonate with descriptions of politicized biological life in the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, or with ecclesiastical forms. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death.
Author | : Sujata Iyengar |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081223832X |
Was there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts described human beings of various national origins—including English—as turning white, brown, tawny, black, green, or red for any number of reasons, from the effects of the sun's rays or imbalance of the bodily humors to sexual desire or the application of makeup. It is in this cultural environment that the seventeenth-century London Gazette used the term "black" to describe both dark-skinned African runaways and dark-haired Britons, such as Scots, who are now unquestioningly conceived of as "white." In Shades of Difference, Sujata Iyengar explores the cultural mythologies of skin color in a period during which colonial expansion and the slave trade introduced Britons to more dark-skinned persons than at any other time in their history. Looking to texts as divergent as sixteenth-century Elizabethan erotic verse, seventeenth-century lyrics, and Restoration prose romances, Iyengar considers the construction of race during the early modern period without oversimplifying the emergence of race as a color-coded classification or a black/white opposition. Rather, "race," embodiment, and skin color are examined in their multiple contexts—historical, geographical, and literary. Iyengar engages works that have not previously been incorporated into discussions of the formation of race, such as Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis." By rethinking the emerging early modern connections between the notions of race, skin color, and gender, Shades of Difference furthers an ongoing discussion with originality and impeccable scholarship.
Author | : Michelle M. Dowd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107099773 |
The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.
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 | : Michael Neill |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2000-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231507707 |
-- Garrett A. Sullivan, Shakespeare Quarterly
Author | : Stephannie Gearhart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351603469 |
Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England. Stephannie Gearhart illustrates how a variety of texts – including drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton – placed elders’ and youths’ voices in dialogue with one another to construct the period’s ideology of age and shape elder-youth relations.
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.
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Ben Jonson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780719051821 |
This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about Volpone 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian commedia dell 'art and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed.