Stage-Wrights : : Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value / / Paul Yachnin.
To 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 c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Cultural Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Textual Note and Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. The Powerless Theater
- 2. Desdemona's Voice: Historical Interpretation and the Operations of Minds
- 3. The Knowledge Marketplace
- 4. Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy
- 5. Reflections of Theater in the "Tragic Glass" from 93 Marlowe to Middleton
- 6. "Gargantua's Mouth": Orality, Voice, and the 129 Gender of Theatrical Power
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index