Author: Howard B. NorlandPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Development of Ben Jonson's Dramatic Technique
Author: Howard B. NorlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Development of the Historic Drama, Its Theory and Practice
Author: Louise Mallinckrodt KueffnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Comic Elements in Ben Jonson's Drama
Author: Ingeborg Maria SturmbergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Dramatic Technique
Author: George Pierce BakerPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
"Dramatic Technique" by George Pierce Baker is a compilation of the playwriting techniques Baker came up with during his tenure as an English professor at Harvard. his book offers a breakdown of the elements of plays and playwriting in concise and straightforward terms. It is, after all, meant to be a manual to teach aspiring playwrights how to excel in their craft and create dramas audiences will love.
Every Man in His Humour
Author: Ben JonsonThe Aristophanic comedies of Ben Jonson
Author: Coburn GumPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111391477
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama
Author: Rebecca YearlingPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137563990
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works—deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical—subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist.
English Drama: Forms and Development
Author: Muriel Clara BradbrookPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521215889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ten original essays on English drama from Tudor times onwards examines different aspects on the development of this art form.
The Plays of Ben Jonson
Author: Walter D. LehrmanPublisher: Boston : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Alchemist
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.