Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The antimasque: a history of growth and decline; Jonson and Barthes; Readers as understanders: Jonsonian masque in the twentieth century; Some speculative conclusions on the growth of the anti masque; 1 'Free from servile flattery': panegyric and the formation of the antimasque; Jonsonian panegyric: a textual criticism of 'To Sir Robert Wroth'; Desire and difference: The Masque of Blackness and The Masque o f Beauty; 2 Arthur and Augustus: masque and the historical myth; History and myth |
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Jonson and the chivalric idealReading the chivalric masques; Harsh and unendurable government: the Roman plays; Reconciling Rome and London; 3 Present occasions and removed mysteries: the topicality of the antimasque; Hymenaei; Love Restored; Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court; To make readers understanders; Satire and the authoritative community; 4 Jonson's consuming satire and the carnivalesque antimasque; Bartholomew Fair and the antimasque; The carnivalesque antimasque: Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly and The Irish Masque at Court |
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Some conclusions on the expansion of the antimasque5 Heavenly love and the collapse of the court masque; Love's Triumph Through Callipolis; The collapse of the dialogic masque; Caroline masque as the absolutist ritual; Postscript; Jonson's heirs: Shirley and Milton; The Triumph Of Peace -- Comus; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
First published in 1999, this volume examines how under the patronage of James I and then Charles I, Ben Jonson wrote no less than 28 court masques. Paying particular attention to the antimasque, Lesley Mickel discusses in detail those court entertainments which contributed significantly to the genre's evolution and development. Her approach is innovative in that she examines these court entertainments in relation to Jonson's poetry and dramatic works. This reveals some idea of the way in which Jonson perceived the relationship between satire and panegyric, as well as highlighting the related, if oppositional, views of state power which he expresses in the Roman plays and in the masques |
Notes |
"First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 -- Dramatic works
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SUBJECT |
Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 fast |
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Masques, English -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
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Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Political plays, English -- History and criticism
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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
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Satire, English -- History and criticism
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Courts and courtiers in literature.
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Literary patrons -- Great Britain
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DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
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Authors and patrons
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Courts and courtiers in literature
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Criticism and interpretation
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Literary patrons
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Masques, English
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Political plays, English
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Politics and literature
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Satire, English
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England
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780429460685 |
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0429460686 |
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9780429864445 |
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0429864442 |
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0429864450 |
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9780429864452 |
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