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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787490203321

Autore

Slights William W. E.

Titolo

Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy / / William W.E. Slights

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1994

©1994

ISBN

1-4426-5609-3

1-4426-2352-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

822/.3

Soggetti

Secrecy in literature

Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Literature and society - England - History - 17th century

Communication in literature

Conspiracies in literature

Conversation in literature

Dialogue

History

Electronic books.

Great Britain

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction -- 1 Secret Places in Renaissance Drama -- 2 Mystifying the Tyrant and Enforcing the Text: Impossible Combinations in Sejanus -- 3 The Play of Conspiracies in Volpone -- 4 Private Lies, Public Notice: Epicoene and Theatrical Deception -- 5 The New Face of Secrecy in The Alchemist -- 6 Catiline's Conspiracy and the Problem of Containment -- 7 State-Decipherers and Politique Picklockes: Interpretation as Self-Replication in Bartholomew Fair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W --



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Sommario/riassunto

Equally rejecting the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thorough-going court apologist, Slights finds that the playwright redraws the lines between private and public discourse for his own and subsequent ages.