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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... playwriting antithetical to what Jonson viewed as the higher call- ing of poetry . But the designation " poet " was ... play- writing in legitimate terms , wresting positive meanings from the debased language surrounding their paid work ...
... playwriting in the course of writing their plays . Shakespeare seems to be inviting spectators to think of him as a poet , and slyly suggesting the transcendent worth of his poetic imagination , when he has Theseus opine on the subject ...
... playwriting in the public terms of patronage or commerce . He also was following out the theater's general project of depolitici- zation as well as continuing the development of a mode of character- ization that makes figures like Hal ...
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The Powerless Theater | 1 |
The Knowledge Marketplace | 64 |
Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
Urheberrecht | |
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