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Author Mardock, James D

Title Our Scene is London : Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (175 pages)
Series Studies in Major Literary Authors
Studies in major literary authors.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Space as Authorial Strategy; Chapter Two Londinium: The 1604 Royal Entry of James I; Chapter Three London on Stage, London as Stage; Chapter Four Jonson's Plague Year Plays; Chapter Five "Practisers of their madnesse": Bartholomew Fair and the Space of the Author; Epilogue: Beyond the 1616 Folio; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary With its three-part rubric of London, drama, and space, this study brings to the currently vigorous critical discussion of Jonsonian authorship the sense of how another sort of dramatic textthat of Londons spaces as interpreted through dramatic practice both in the streets of the city and on its stagesis also an integral factor in the emergence of the early modern author
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Subject Dramatists, English -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
Jonson, Ben -- 1573?-1637 -- Criticism and interpretation
Jonson, Ben -- 1573?-1637 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London
London (England) -- In literature
Dramatists, English -- Homes and haunts
England -- London
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203928516
0203928512
1281102032
9781281102034