LEADER 04430nam 2200769 450 001 9910459946103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2352-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442623521 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329557 035 $a(EBL)3296744 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001420398 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12503294 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001420398 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11403916 035 $a(PQKB)10117852 035 $a(CEL)449190 035 $a(OCoLC)903441094 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00916068 035 $a(DE-B1597)465667 035 $a(OCoLC)944178825 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442623521 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670139 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670139 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256653 035 $a(OCoLC)958564974 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329557 100 $a20160922h19941994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBen Jonson and the art of secrecy /$fWilliam W.E. Slights 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1994. 210 4$dİ1994 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 0 $aHeritage 311 $a0-8020-0462-8 311 $a1-4426-5502-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Texts -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Secret Places in Renaissance Drama -- $t2. Mystifying the Tyrant and Enforcing the Text: Impossible Combinations in Sejanus -- $t3. The Play of Conspiracies in Volpone -- $t4. Private Lies, Public Notice: Epicoene and Theatrical Deception -- $t5. The New Face of Secrecy in The Alchemist -- $t6. Catiline's Conspiracy and the Problem of Containment -- $t7. State-Decipherers and Politique Picklockes: Interpretation as Self-Replication in Bartholomew Fair -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aSecrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays.Conspiracies and intrigues are the driving force of Jonson's dramatic universe. Focusing on Sejanus, His Fall; Volpone, or the Fox; Epicoene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Catiline, His Conspiracy, and Bartholomew Fair, William Slights places Jonson within the context of the secrecy- ridden culture of the court of King James I and provides illuminating readings of his best-known plays.Slights draws on the sociology of secrecy, the history of censorship, and the theory of hermeneutics to investigate secrecy, intrigue, and conspiracy as aspects of Jonsonian dramatic form, contemporary court/city/church politics, and textual interpretation. He argues that the tension between concealment and revelation in the plays affords a model for the poise that sustained Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre and that made him a pivotal figure in the cultural history of early modern England.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. 606 $aSecrecy in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aCommunication in literature 606 $aConspiracies in literature 606 $aConversation in literature 606 $aDialogue 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSecrecy in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aCommunication in literature. 615 0$aConspiracies in literature. 615 0$aConversation in literature. 615 0$aDialogue. 676 $a822/.3 700 $aSlights$b William W. E.$0976356 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459946103321 996 $aBen Jonson and the art of secrecy$92224215 997 $aUNINA