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Author : Franz Fricker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ben Jonson's Plays in Performance and the Jacobean Theatre written by Franz Fricker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Cave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134680929
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Ben Jonson and Theatre written by Richard Cave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider field of Renaissance drama, this book bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance. Ben Jonson and Theatre includes: * discussions with and between practitioners * essays on the staging of the plays * edited transcripts of interviews with contemporary practitioners The volume includes contributions from Joan Littlewood, Sam Mendes, John Nettles, Simon Russell Beale and Geoffrey Rush, Oscar-winning actor for Shine.
Author : Richard Cave
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134680937
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Ben Jonson and Theatre written by Richard Cave and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the Jonson canon from the point of view of the theatre practitioner. It bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how his drama operates in performance and includes discussion with and between practitioners.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719051821
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Volpone written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about Volpone 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian commedia dell 'art and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed.
Author : Tom Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000798747
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson written by Tom Harrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839442
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Five Plays written by Ben Jonson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is a modernized version with full annotation.
Author : Martin Butler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023037672X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Re-Presenting Ben Jonson written by Martin Butler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-07-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness. This collection of essays by twelve leading scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford edition, and generated a Jonson whose Works and career look quite different. Addressing the competing needs of future readers, teachers and performers, it asks how this reconceptualized Jonson might best be transmitted into the next century. The volume also includes a new Jonson text, The Entertainment at Britain's Burse , written in 1609 to celebrate the royal opening of the Earl of Salisbury's commercial development in the Strand. Discovered in 1996, it is the most significant addition to Jonson's canon this century, and is here printed for the first time.
Author : D. Heyward Brock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810890755
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia written by D. Heyward Brock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served not only as a bricklayer but also a soldier, an adventurer, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. The breadth of his experiences, acquaintances, friends, and enemies was legendary, and his literary canon is equally as diverse. The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia covers in detail the works, life, and times of this seminal figure of the English Renaissance. The cross-referenced entries include summaries of all Jonson’s plays, masques, and entertainments, as well as sketches of Jonson’s friends, enemies, patrons, disciples, actors, and fellow writers. In addition, the book identifies historical figures, mythological characters, and classical authors, as well as Jonson’s contemporaries and London place names mentioned in the works. Individuals who danced or participated in the masques and entertainments or tournaments for which Jonson wrote speeches are noted, as are the main actors known to have acted in the plays. All major scholars—from Jonson’s own day until the twenty-first century—who have commented on Jonson or his works are also included. An extensive bibliography completes this invaluable scholarly reference tool. Because of Jonson’s centrality to—and influence in and beyond—his age, this encyclopedia provides a dynamic, unparalleled vision of the English Renaissance literary scene. Capturing the depth and breadth of Jonson’s understanding of early Modern England, The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia will be especially useful for students, librarians, and academics interested in the literary and cultural scene from 1500 to 1650.
Author : Martin White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134917805
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Drama in Action written by Martin White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama in Action is a fascinating exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging. Covering questions of contemporary playhouse design, verse and language, staging and rehearsal practices, and acting styles, Martin White relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre to the issues involved in staging the plays today. This refreshingly accessible volume: * examines the history of the plays on the English stage from the seventeenth century to the present day * explores questions arising from reconstructions, with particular reference to the new Globe Theatre * includes interviews with, and draws on the work and experience of modern theatre practitioners including Harriet Walter, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn, Stephen Jeffreys, Adrian Noble and Helen Mirren * includes discussions of familiar plays such as The Duchess of Malfi and 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, as well as many lesser known play-texts Renaissance Drama in Action offers undergraduates and A-level students an invaluable guide to the characteristics of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and its relationship to contemporary theatre and staging.
Author : Rebecca Yearling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137563990
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama written by Rebecca Yearling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309974
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Jacobean Drama written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context. This Reader's Guide introduces students to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of playwrights such as Jonson, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. Pascale Aebischer explores recent critical developments in key areas including: - How the plays were staged and printed - Innovative editions of plays - How the plays represent and contest the dominant ideologies of the Jacobean period - Dramatic genres - The representation of the human body and of social, gender and race relations - Modern productions on stage and screen Featuring suggestions for further research and reading, and a filmography of commercially available film versions of non-Shakespearean drama, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the diverse plays of the Jacobean age.
Author : Ingeborg Maria Sturmberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Comic Elements in Ben Jonson's Drama written by Ingeborg Maria Sturmberger and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne Rochester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898183
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger written by Joanne Rochester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playwrights composing for the London stage between 1580 and 1642 repeatedly staged plays-within and other metatheatrical inserts. Such works present fictionalized spectators as well as performers, providing images of the audience-stage interaction within the theatre. They are as much enactments of the interpretive work of a spectator as of acting, and as such they are a potential source of information about early modern conceptions of audiences, spectatorship and perception. This study examines on-stage spectatorship in three plays by Philip Massinger, head playwright for the King's Men from 1625 to 1640. Each play presents a different form of metatheatrical inset, from the plays-within of The Roman Actor (1626), to the masques-within of The City Madam (1632) to the titular miniature portrait of The Picture (1629), moving thematically from spectator interpretations of dramatic performance, the visual spectacle of the masque to staged 'readings' of static visual art. All three forms present a dramatization of the process of examination, and allow an analysis of Massinger's assumptions about interpretation, perception and spectator response.
Author : Dewey Heyward Brock
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Sussex : Harvester Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Ben Jonson Companion written by Dewey Heyward Brock and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Sussex : Harvester Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521556361
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The English Stage written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Stage tells the story of drama through its many changes in style and convention from medieval times to the present day. With a wide sweep of coverage, John Styan analyses the key features of staging, including early street theatre and public performance, the evolution of the playhouse and the private space, and the pairing of theory and stagecraft in the works of modern dramatists. He focuses on the conventions by which a playwright, actors and their audience create the phenomenon of theatre and the way such conventions have changed over time. Styan can be considered among a small number of influential scholars who have helped to develop theatre history from its origins in literary studies into an independent and respected field. From the vantage point of a lifetime's study he examines and illustrates the multitude of factors which have brought and continue to bring plays to life.
Author : Walter D. Lehrman
Publisher : Boston : G.K. Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Plays of Ben Jonson written by Walter D. Lehrman and published by Boston : G.K. Hall. This book was released on 1980 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719030932
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Volpone, Or the Fox written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of Jonson’s career at the time of writing and introduces new material on its relation to the Reynard beast epic and the commedia dell’ arte. Ambiguities in the play are discussed with reference to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of the Golden Age. Particular attention is paid to the rhythmic effects of the play in performance, especially interweavings of the main plot and subplot. Fresh suggestions are made about the play’s opening and its controversial conclusion in the light of experiments that have been made in performance since Volpone ’s stage revival in 1921. The modernized text is accompanied by full commentary, notes and illustrations. The appendices include a discussion by John Cutts of the original music, passages translated from the original sources and analogues, and a full record of the play’s modern stage history, its many adaptations, and its transformations into opera, musical comedy, film and television.
