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Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama : Satire and the Audience / / by Rebecca Yearling



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Autore: Yearling Rebecca Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama : Satire and the Audience / / by Rebecca Yearling Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina: 500
Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern
Theater—History
Literature
British literature
Literature—History and criticism
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
Theatre History
Literature, general
British and Irish Literature
Literary History
Classificazione: LIT004120LIT013000LIT019000PER011020
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Editions -- Introduction: Why does Marston Matter? -- Prologue: The Problem of the Audience -- 1. The Playwrights and the Audience -- 2. Dramatic Satire and the Crisis of Authority -- 3. John Marston: Provoking the Audience -- 4. Jonson and Marston: 'I write just in thy vein, I' -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Boy Actors: The Question of Intent -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works—deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical—subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist.
Titolo autorizzato: Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-137-56399-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910255232703321
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