Ben Jonson: Dramatist

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Cambridge University Press, 1984. júl. 12. - 370 oldal
Since the Romantic period, Jonson has been an author more respected than read. Frequently compared with Shakespeare, he usually suffers unfairly from the comparison. In this book Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays which completely re-evaluates Jonson as a dramatist. Describing in detail his experimentation with different comic styles and his changing relationship to other Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, particularly Shakespeare, she brings us closer than ever before to Jonson as a man, and as a great artist in comedy. The book proceeds chronologically, play by play, examining such important topics as Jonson's treatment of women, trust among individuals, father and son relationships, and proper names. Anne Barton argues that, despite his espousal of classical principles of decorum and restraint, Jonson was always drawn temperamentally towards the irregular, romantic Elizabethan tradition.
 

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Jonson and the Elizabethans
1
The Case Is Altered and Every Man In His Humour
29
The comical satires
58
Sejanus and Volpone
92
Epicoene
120
The Alchemist
136
Catiline
154
the chapter interloping
170
The Staple of News and Eastward Ho
237
The New Inn
258
The Magnetic Lady
285
Jonson and Caroline nostalgia
300
A Tale of A Tub
321
The Sad Shepherd
338
Notes
352
Index
363

Bartholomew Fair
194
ΙΟ The Devil Is An Ass
219

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