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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... ideological gulf between ' government ' and ' opposition ' is impossible to find in Parliament be- fore 1640. ” 29 Heinemann argues that Middleton was developing an ideological program that is exemplified , in her view , by A Game at ...
... ideology of artistic production continued to be dominated by the increasingly outmoded model of service and reward . 2 As ... ideological system made it im- possible for them to produce any fully coherent representation . I situate ...
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The Powerless Theater | 1 |
The Knowledge Marketplace | 64 |
Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy | 71 |
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