Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical ValueTo many of their contemporaries, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were little more than artisanal craftsmen, "stage-wrights" who wrote plays for money, to be performed in common playhouses and in a manner often antithetical to what Jonson himself viewed as the higher calling of poetry. In response to the conflicting pressures of censorship and commercialism, Paul Yachnin contends, players and dramatists alike had promulgated the idea of drama's irrelevance, creating a recreational theater that failed to influence its audience in any purposeful way. |
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... Theatre in Spain , 1490-1700 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 ) , 185 , 192 . 12. For a Foucauldian analysis of early modern censorship , see Richard Burt , Licensed by Authority : Ben Jonson and the Discourses of ...
Contents
The Powerless Theater | 1 |
The Knowledge Marketplace | 64 |
Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
Copyright | |
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