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 that 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. This volume also includes a new Jonson text, The Entertainment at Britain' Burse, written in 1609 and here printed for the first time.

Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance (Early Modern Literature in History)

Literature & Fiction

Butler, Martin

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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.

Dramas & Plays

This is a thorough re-evaluation of the drama written and performed in the decade leading up to the Civil War, the most seriously neglected period of English theatre. Martin Butler overturns long-held assumptions about the nature of Caroline theatre, its playwrights, plays and audiences. The theatrical tradition that was cut short in September 1642 was neither exhausted nor in retreat. Far from being subservient to or dependent on the court, the theatres were expressing sharply critical points of view. Dr Butler makes a strong argument for the value and vitality of Caroline theatre by tracing a drama of political unorthodoxy at court, in the non-courtly indoor theatres, and especially in the open-air theatres which voiced grievances that anticipated the political radicalism of the 1640s. At the heart of the book is a complete re-evaluation of two neglected playwrights, Richard Brome and James Shirley, and a fresh examination of the late plays of Philip Massinger. As a piece of closely integrated historical and literary criticism, with implications for Renaissance drama in general, this is an important and challenging book which will be read by historians as well as scholars and students of seventeenth-century drama.

Theatre and Crisis 1632–1642

Cambridge University Press

Theatre and Crisis 1632–1642 (Cambridge Paperback Library)

Court masques were multi-media entertainments, with song, dance, theater, and changeable scenery, staged annually at the English court to celebrate the Stuart dynasty. They have typically been regarded as frivolous and expensive entertainments. This book dispels this notion, emphasizing instead that they were embedded in the politics of the moment, and spoke in complex ways to the different audiences who viewed them. Covering the whole period from Queen Anne's first masque at Winchester in 1603 to Salmacida Spolia in 1640, Butler looks in depth at the political functions of state festivity. The book contextualizes masque performances in intricate detail, and analyzes how they shaped, managed, and influenced the public face of the Stuart kingship. Butler presents the masques as a vehicle through which we can read the early Stuart court's political aspirations and the changing functions of royal culture in a period of often radical instability.

The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture

William Blake

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

B E S Pub Co

EAI and Web Services: Cutting the Cost of Enterprise Integration: Technology and Evaluation Comparison Report

Business & Money

Jones, Teresa

Holden, John.

Jennings, Tim

Charlesworth, Ian

Hamilton, Lois

Holt, Maxine

Jagger, Emma

Skills

Butler Group

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Amazon Echo: The 2017 User Guide and Manual: Get the Best Out of Amazon Echo

Reference

Consumer Guides

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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The corporeal fantasy is your life, a fantasy created by your senses, mind, and desires. This fantasy has its pleasures and pains, and one fine day comes to an end. Animals live the same life, striving to survive, to procreate and then eventually die. If we don't want to live the life of an animal we need to understand ourselves and the world. This gives us the power to wake up from the fantasy.

The Corporeal Fantasy: Waking Up From The Dream of Life

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

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