| Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Sanders, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349399515 ISBN-13: 9781349399512 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.71 lbs) 262 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre. |
