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Shakespeare & the poets' war

Traces Shakespeare's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. This book offers a reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters", revealing Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences.
Print Book, English, ©2001
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780231122429, 9780231122436, 023112242X, 0231122438
44509155
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Elizabethan Dramatists as Literary Critics 1. Shakespeare's Purge of Jonson: The Theatrical Context of Troilus and Cressida Part 1 2. Jonson on Shakespeare: Criticism as Self-Creation 3. Representing Jonson: Histriomastix and the Origin of the Poets' War 4. Shakespeare in Love: The Containment of Comical Satire in As You Like It 5. Marston's Festive Comedy: Punishing Jonson in Jack Drum's Entertainment Part 2 6. The War of the Private Theaters: Cynthia's Revels or What You Will 7. Shakespeare at the Fountain of Self-Love: Twelfth Night at the Center of the Poets' War Part 3 8. "Impeaching Your Own Quality": Constructions of Poetic Authority in Poetaster and Satiromastix 9. Ben Jonson and the "Little Eyases": Theatrical Politics in Hamlet An Armed Epilogue: Troilus and Cressida and the Impact of the Poets' War Chronological Appendix