The Social Relations Of Jonson S Theater

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A detailed literary historical argument about the sources and consequences of Jonson's realism.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1992-08-28
File : 172 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521419182


Renaissance Drama

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This work provides a comprehensive overview of one of the richest periods of theatre history - the drama of early modern England.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Polity
Release : 2007-11-19
File : 465 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780745633107


The Invention Of Suspicion

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The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely the same time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result of this enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well as offering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair and The Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Lorna Hutson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2011-04-14
File : 392 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191615894


Separate Theaters

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"This specifically "literary" historical study situates the rather sudden emergence of madhouses ("Bedlam") on the Shakespearean stage in the sophisticated literary dispute known as the "Poets' War," wherein various dramatists, particularly Jonson and Shakespeare, argued about what drama was supposed to be. "Madness" became a rhetorical battleground of artistic ideas, and that dispute, rather than any desire to represent the actual hospital, led to the appearance of "Bedlam" on the stage."

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Genre : English drama
Author : Kenneth S. Jackson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Release : 2005
File : 324 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0874138906


Renaissance Drama 33

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Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and performance.

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Genre : History
Author : Patricia Parker
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release : 2005-07-12
File : 254 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780810121997


God Speed The Plough

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An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.

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Genre : History
Author : Andrew McRae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2002-09-12
File : 356 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521524660


The Oxford Encyclopedia Of British Literature

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From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2006-03-03
File : 2656 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199725311


Clothing And Queer Style In Early Modern English Drama

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This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body. Practices of extravagant dress destabilized distinctions between able-bodied and disabled, human and non-human, and the past and present, distinctions that structure normative ways of thinking about sexuality. In city comedies by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, Thomas Middleton, and Thomas Dekker, extravagantly dressed male characters imagine alternatives to the prevailing modes of subjectivity, sociability, and eroticism in early modern London. While these characters are situated in hostile narrative and historical contexts, this book draws on recent work on disability, materiality, and queer temporality to rethink their relationship to those contexts in order to access the world-making possibilities of early modern queer style. In their rich representations of life in London around the turn of the seventeenth century, these plays not only were, but also remain, uniquely sensitive to the intersection of sexuality, urbanization, and material culture. The attachments and pleasures of early modern sartorial extravagance they depict can estrange us from the epistemologies that narrow current thinking about sexuality's relationship to authenticity, pedagogy, interiority, and privacy.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : James M. Bromley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2021-05-27
File : 208 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780192638069


Theatre Finance And Society In Early Modern England

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This interesting study examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern England, as they are revealed in plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts of the period. These texts yield fascinating insights into the various, often unpredictable, ways in which people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures. Plays discussed include Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Timon of Athens, Jonson's The Alchemist and Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts. They are paired with writings by and about the finances of the corrupt Earl of Suffolk, the privateer Walter Raleigh, the royal agent Thomas Gresham, theatre entrepreneur James Burbage, and the Lord Treasurer Lionel Cranfield. Leinwand's new readings of these texts reveal a blend of affect and cognition concerning finance that includes nostalgia, anger, contempt, embarrassment, tenacity, bravado and humility.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Theodore B. Leinwand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1999-02-04
File : 217 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781139425940


Theaters Of Intention

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Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater in this period, this book reads plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal understanding of willful human action pervades 16th- and 17th-century English drama.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Luke Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release : 2000
File : 388 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0804734143