Ben Jonson's Plays in Performance and the Jacobean Theatre
Author : Franz Fricker
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Theater
ISBN :
Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748629912
Book Description
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.
Ben Jonson's Plays
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 1910
Category :
ISBN :
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Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
Author : Martin Butler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023037672X
Book Description
Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness. This collection of essays by twelve leading scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford edition, and generated a Jonson whose Works and career look quite different. Addressing the competing needs of future readers, teachers and performers, it asks how this reconceptualized Jonson might best be transmitted into the next century. The volume also includes a new Jonson text, The Entertainment at Britain's Burse , written in 1609 to celebrate the royal opening of the Earl of Salisbury's commercial development in the Strand. Discovered in 1996, it is the most significant addition to Jonson's canon this century, and is here printed for the first time.
Ben Jonson and Theatre
Author : Richard Cave
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134680937
Book Description
Looks at the Jonson canon from the point of view of the theatre practitioner. It bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how his drama operates in performance and includes discussion with and between practitioners.
Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson
Author : Tom Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000798747
Book Description
This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.
Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama
Author : Rebecca Yearling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137563990
Book Description
This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works—deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical—subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist.
The Plays of Ben Jonson
Author : Walter D. Lehrman
Publisher : Boston : G.K. Hall
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Reference
ISBN :
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Children of the Queen's Revels
Author : Lucy Munro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139446051
Book Description
This book provides a detailed study of the Children of the Queen's Revels, the most enduring and influential of the Jacobean children's companies. Between 1603 and 1613 the Queen's Revels staged plays by Francis Beaumont, George Chapman, John Fletcher, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, all of whom were at their most innovative when writing for this company. Combining theatre history and critical analysis, this study provides a history of the Children of the Queen's Revels, and an account of their repertory. It examines the 'biography' of the company - demonstrating the involvement in dramatic production of dramatists, shareholders, patrons, audiences and actors alike, and reappraising issues such as management, performance style and audience composition - before exploring their groundbreaking practices in comedy, tragicomedy and tragedy. The book also includes five documentary appendices detailing the plays, people and performances of the Queen's Revels Company.
Ben Jonson’s Theatrical Republics
Author : J. Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,2 MB
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230389449
Book Description
This 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.
