Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ValueUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Incorporated, 29.05.1997 - 232 Seiten 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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... male " has been chal- lenged by Patricia Parker , who writes that " [ t ] he model of the female as an imperfect or incomplete version of the male was itself ques- tioned well before the early seventeenth - century rejection by most ...
... male seed upon female earth , but it also suggests that the young male addressee of the poem resembles his mother . The complexity of the sonnet makes an important point about Shakespeare's approach to the biology of reproduction . In ...
... male - to - male transmission of property . In the real world , the play suggests , transvestism does the boy actors nothing but good ; Dauphine has brought the young man up for six months with care and at great expense ( 5.4.189-90 ) ...
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The Powerless Theater | 1 |
The Knowledge Marketplace | 64 |
Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
Urheberrecht | |
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