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Author: Douglas Duncan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1979-06-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0521223598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuncan suggests Jonson's challenge to the audience originates in the practice of 'oblique teaching', which was developed by Erasmus and More out of their admiration for Lucian.
Author: Ben Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 1317897919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of realism. Brief introductions to each play discuss the local settings, sources, theatre history and further readings. The general introduction includes a biography of Jonson, a chronology of the plays and masques, and separate essays on each play, dealing particularly with Jonson's satirical treatments of trends and shams of the day, whether political, social, commercial, or spiritual.
Author: David Riggs
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780674066267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Compelling... Riggs's approach to the man-as-artist is to see him as a paradox, a man of reckless defiance who boasted openly about his womanizing and criminal record, and who nonetheless represented himself in Renaissance England as the great model of a self-restrained and chastely austere classical style of writing... David Riggs's eminently readable and generously illustrated study not only fully justifies our curiosity, but handles with admirable tact what might be lurid and sensational if our only interest were the gossip.'New York Times Book Review
Author: William W. E. Slights
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1994-12-15
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1442656093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays. Conspiracies and intrigues are the driving force of Jonson's dramatic universe. Focusing on Sejanus, His Fall; Volpone, or the Fox; Epicoene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Catiline, His Conspiracy, and Bartholomew Fair, William Slights places Jonson within the context of the secrecy- ridden culture of the court of King James I and provides illuminating readings of his best-known plays. Slights draws on the sociology of secrecy, the history of censorship, and the theory of hermeneutics to investigate secrecy, intrigue, and conspiracy as aspects of Jonsonian dramatic form, contemporary court/city/church politics, and textual interpretation. He argues that the tension between concealment and revelation in the plays affords a model for the poise that sustained Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre and that made him a pivotal figure in the cultural history of early modern England. Equally rejecting the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thorough-going court apologist, Slights finds that the playwright redraws the lines between private and public discourse for his own and subsequent ages.
Author: J. Sanders
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1998-08-19
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0230389449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.
Author: W. David Kay
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1995-03-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1349237787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise biography surveys Jonson's career and provides an introduction to his works in the context of Jacobean politics, court patronage and his many literary rivalries. Stressing his wit and inventiveness, it explores the strategies by which he attempted to maintain his independence from the conditions of theatrical production and from his patrons and introduces new evidence that, despite his vaunted classicism, he repeatedly appropriated the matter or forms of other English writers in order to demonstrate his own artistic superiority.
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989-08-25
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780521292481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA volume containing three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays: Sejanus, Volpone and Epicoene.
Author: James E. Hirsh
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780838636879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexander 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.
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Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1441180591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Matthew Steggle
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-01-20
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1441174427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's Volpone - introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.
