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Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy

Author : William W. E. Slights
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442656093
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy written by William W. E. Slights and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets 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.

Volpone

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719051821
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)

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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.

Shakespeare Survey

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual survey of Shakespearian study and production.

Solon and Thespis

Author : Dennis Kezar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Solon and Thespis written by Dennis Kezar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this attractively titled collection of essays on law and theater in the English Renaissance, Dennis Kezar has assembled an impressive array of talent to focus on the productive and yet vexed relationship of theater and the state. Plays 'tell lies' to their audiences: so argued Solon in his riposte to Thespis, to be followed in due course by Plato's attack on poetry in the Republic and all that Jonas Barish has studied under the rubric of The Antitheatrical Prejudice. This battleground here affords a rich opportunity for an exploration of 'an institutional antagonism over the tenuous distinction between theater's inconsequential fiction and the real world's socially consequential fact.' This volume is a truly valuable contribution to the growing interest in law and literature, here brought to bear on the great drama of Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker, Marston, Chapman, and their contemporaries." --David Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, University of Chicago "The diversity of topics explored in this excellent collection makes it a valuable addition to the burgeoning field of early modern law, theater, and literature studies. The essays included here touch on a wide range of material--from Dekker to Shakespeare to Chapman and Bacon; and in doing so, they explore the tensions between Solon and Thespis in such a way as to make the work of analyzing the relationship between literature and the law seem not only fruitful, but in fact essential to a deeper understanding of both." --Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto This volume contains contributions by literary critics and historians who demonstrate that theater and law were not simply relevant to each other in the early modern period; they explore the physical spaces in which early modern law and drama were performed, the social and imaginative practices that energized such spaces, and the rhetorical patterns that make the two institutions far less discrete and far more collaborative than has previously been recognized.

Milton's Secrecy

Author : James Dougal Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351917501
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Milton's Secrecy written by James Dougal Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific modernity treats interpretation as a matter of discovery. Discovery, however, may not be all that matters about interpretation. In Milton's Secrecy, J. D. Fleming argues that the poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674) are about the presentation of a radically different hermeneutic model. This is based on openness within language, rather than on secrets within the world. Milton's representations of meaning are exoteric, not esoteric; recognitive, not inventive. Milton's Secrecy places its titular subject in opposition to the epistemology of modern natural science, and to the interpretative assumptions that science supports. At the same time, the book places Milton within early modern contexts of interpretation and knowledge. Drawing on Renaissance Neoplatonism, Tudor-Stuart ideology, and the Calvinist theory of conscience, Milton's Secrecy argues that the attempt to theorize interpretation without discovery is not unorthodox within early modern English culture. If anything, Milton's hostility to secrecy and discovery aligns him with his culture's ethical and hermeneutic ideal. Milton's Secrecy provides an historical framework for considering the theoretical validity of this ideal, by aligning it with the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.

The Secret Drama of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author : Gerald Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Falstaff in Rebellion

Author : John William Postgate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
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University of Toronto Quarterly

Author : University of Toronto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Popular Lectures on Science and Art

Author : Dionysius Lardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Popular Lectures on Science and Art written by Dionysius Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

Author : David Damrosch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1558 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Longman Anthology of British Literature written by David Damrosch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Volpone

Author : Matthew Steggle
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826411533
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Volpone written by Matthew Steggle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Ben Jonson's Art

Author : Esther Cloudman Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson's Art written by Esther Cloudman Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Francis Bacon and His Secret Society

Author : Constance Pott
Publisher : SEVERUS Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3863471784
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Francis Bacon and His Secret Society written by Constance Pott and published by SEVERUS Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is certain that, although much is known about Francis Bacon in some parts or phases of his chequered life, yet there is a great deal more which is obscure, or very inadequately treated by his biographers." "For instance, what was he doing or where was he travelling during certain unchronicled years? Why do we hear so little in modern books of that beloved brother Anthony, who was his 'comfort, ' and his 'second self'? And where was Anthony when he died? Where was he buried? And why are no particulars of his eventful life, his last illness, death, or burial recorded in ordinary books?" Francis Bacon (1561-1626): philosopher, playwright, poet, and conceiver of the scientific method for empirical inquiry. The staggering amount of publications in which he was involved and his demand for a worldwide reformation of learning, science, and religion have made him one of the most important minds of the Elizabethan era. As much as Bacon's public life influenced the world of science, there is an equal part of his life obscured by his secrecy. This book sets out to delve into these secrets in order to uncover the full extent of Bacon's work. His self-devised secret cipher, his apparent connections to the Rosicrucians and Freemasons, and the frequent gaps in his biography are thoroughly examined, making this a valuable addition to any Baconian collection.

The Caxton Head Catalogue

Author : James Tregaskis (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Caxton Head Catalogue written by James Tregaskis (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gale Researcher Guide for: Satiric Comedy: Ben Jonson's "Faire Correctives" of Moral and Social Ills

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Author : Steven Hrdlicka
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 153585393X
Total Pages : 11 pages
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Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for: Satiric Comedy: Ben Jonson's "Faire Correctives" of Moral and Social Ills written by Steven Hrdlicka and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: Satiric Comedy: Ben Jonson's "Faire Correctives" of Moral and Social Ills is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

Author : Hannah Crawforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107471338
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature written by Hannah Crawforth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these lexically astute writers actively engaged with the lexicographers, Anglo-Saxonists and etymologists who were carrying out a national project to recover, or invent, the origins of English, at a time when the question of a national vernacular was inseparable from that of national identity. English words are deployed to particular effect – as a polemical weapon, allegorical device, coded form of communication, type of historical allusion or political tool. Drawing together early modern literature and linguistics, Crawforth argues that the history of English as it was studied in the period radically underpins the writing of its greatest poets.

The Secret Life of Genius

Author : John Chambers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594779260
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Genius written by John Chambers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the metaphysical experiences that shaped the lives and work of 24 great men and women from the Renaissance to modern times • Chronicles the changing relationship with God, nature, and spirituality from the 16th century to the 20th century • Includes encounters with the paranormal of Ben Johnson, Isaac Newton, Mary Shelley, Leo Tolstoy, Doris Lessing, and Winston Churchill What role did the esoteric thought of Swedenborg play in the creative output of Honoré de Balzac? Did a supernatural encounter prompt Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to focus her work on the theme of immortality? Building on his earlier research on communications with the spirit world that Victor Hugo, author of Les Misérables, experienced while in exile on the isle of Jersey, John Chambers now looks at the role occult knowledge and supernatural experiences played in the lives of 24 geniuses. His investigation spans the life and work of William Blake, Helena Blavatsky, and W. B. Yeats, whose esoteric interests are well known, as well as those little suspected of such encounters with worlds beyond ours, including Doris Lessing, Leo Tolstoy, Norman Mailer, Yukio Mishima, and Winston Churchill. Chambers presents more than a collection of anecdotes and newly revealed secrets. His research provides insightful historical context of the decisive turning point that took place with the collapse of Prague, the occult capital of Europe, in 1620, which resulted in the victory of Cartesian reality and Newton’s scientific paradigm over the esoteric traditions that flourished until that time. The magical and occult world shown in the lives of these 24 great men and women offers us a glimpse of what could still be ours--a world that though it is now overshadowed by modern scientific and technological principles is yet still visible on the horizon through the visions and paranormal experiences of these geniuses.