Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Jonson And Thomas Middleton
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Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Jonson And Thomas Middleton
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Author : Bertil Johansson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Jonson And Thomas Middleton written by Bertil Johansson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Literary Criticism categories.
This monograph studies the influence of religion & superstition on Middleton & Jonson, whose works, like those of all Renaissance writers, reveal how great this influence was.
Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Jonson And Thomas Middleton
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Author : Bertil Johansson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Jonson And Thomas Middleton written by Bertil Johansson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with English drama categories.
Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Johnson And Thomas Middleton
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Author : Bertil Johansson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Religion And Superstition In The Plays Of Ben Johnson And Thomas Middleton written by Bertil Johansson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
This monograph studies the influence of religion & superstition on Middleton & Jonson, whose works, like those of all Renaissance writers, reveal how great this influence was.
Thomas Middleton And Early Modern Textual Culture
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Author : Gary Taylor
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-11-22
Thomas Middleton And Early Modern Textual Culture written by Gary Taylor and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not only a companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which every scholar of Renaissance literature will find indispensable. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the book in early modern Europe. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, on 'The Culture', situates Middleton within an historical and theoretical overview of early modern textual production, reproduction, circulation, and reception. An introductory essay by Gary Taylor ('The Order of Persons') surveys lists of persons written by or connected to Middleton, using the complex relationship between textual and social orders to trace the evolution of textual culture in England during the 'Middleton century' (1580-1679). Ten original essays then focus on Middleton's connections to different aspects of textual culture in that century: authorship (by MacD. P. Jackson), manuscripts (Harold Love), legal texts (Edward Geiskes), censorship (Richard Burt), printing (Adrian Weiss), visual texts (John Astington), music (Andrew Sabol), stationers and living authors (Cyndia Clegg), posthumous publishing (Maureen Bell), and early readers (John Jowett). The second part, 'The Texts', supplies the documentation for claims made in the first part. This includes detailed evidence for the canon and chronology of Middleton's works in all genres, greatly extending previous scholarship, and using the latest corpus-based attribution techniques. A full editorial apparatus is supplied for each item in The Collected Works: an Introduction, which summarizes and extends previous scholarship, is followed by textual notes, recording substantive departures from the control-text, variants between early texts, press-variants, discussions of emendations, and (for plays) an exact transcription of all original stage directions. Cross-references make it easy to move between the two volumes. This authoritative account of the early texts includes some extraordinarily complicated cases, which have never before been systematically collated: 'Hence, all you vain delights' (the most popular song lyric from the Renaissance stage), The Two Gates of Salvation, The Peacemaker, and A Game at Chess (the most complex editorial problem in early modern drama, with eight extant texts and numerous reports of the early performances).
Every Man Out Of His Humour
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Author : Ben Jonson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001
Every Man Out Of His Humour written by Ben Jonson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humour is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.
Fairies Fractious Women And The Old Faith
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Author : Regina Buccol
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 2006-07
Fairies Fractious Women And The Old Faith written by Regina Buccol and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Fairies, unruly women, and vestigial Catholicism constituted a frequently invoked triad in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century drama which has seldom been critically examined and therefore constitutes a significant lacuna in scholarly treatments of early modern theater, including the work of Shakespeare. Fairy tradition has lost out in scholarly critical convention to the more masculine mythologies of Christianity and classical Greece and Rome, in which female deities either serve masculine gods or are themselves masculinized (i.e., Diana as a buckskinned warrior). However, the fairy tradition is every bit as significant in our critical attempts to situate early modern texts in their historical contexts as the references to classical texts and struggles associated with state-mandated religious beliefs are widely agreed to be. fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early modern conceptions of appropriate class and gender conduct and state-mandated religion in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cymbeline, All's Well That Ends Well, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist.
Shakespeare S Religious Frontier
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Author : Robert Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Shakespeare S Religious Frontier written by Robert Stevenson and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Religion categories.
THIS slight volume is addressed not to Shakespearean special ists, but rather to the general public. My chief purpose has been to view Shakespeare's manipulation of his clergy. The last three chapters deal with ancillary problems. Two articles in this collection have already been published - "Shakespeare's Cardinals and Bishops" in The Crozer Quarterry, April, 1950; "Shakespeare's Interest in Harsnet's Declaration" in Publications of the Modern Language Association, September, 1952. I appreciate the Editors' permission to reprint these essays in the present volume. I also thank Professors Gerald Eades Bentley and Lily Bess Campbell for encourage ment and advice during the writing of the first, fifth, and last pieces in this collection. Neither is however to be held re sponsible for any errors discovered by reviewers. All of the essays in this volume except the first were written either at The Folger Shakespeare Library in 1950 or at The Huntington Library in 1952. I thank the directors and staffs of both libraries for their many exceptional kindnesses. Miss Mary Neighbour of Oxford has placed me further in her debt by typing the completed collection.
A Critical Edition Of Thomas Middleton S A Chast Mayd In Cheape Side
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Author : Richard John Wall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
A Critical Edition Of Thomas Middleton S A Chast Mayd In Cheape Side written by Richard John Wall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
A Critical Edition Of Thomas Middleton S Your Five Gallants
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Author : Thomas Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Dissertations-G
Release Date : 1979
A Critical Edition Of Thomas Middleton S Your Five Gallants written by Thomas Middleton and has been published by Dissertations-G this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Drama categories.
The Theatre Of The Occult Revival
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Author : E. Lingan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-11-19
The Theatre Of The Occult Revival written by E. Lingan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-19 with Religion categories.
This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival. Lingan shows how theatre contributed to the fragmentation of Western religious culture and how contemporary theatre plays a part in the development of alternative, occult religions.