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Author Mickel, Lesley.

Title Ben Jonson's antimasques : a history of growth and decline / Lesley Mickel
Published London : Routledge, 2018, ©1999

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Series Routledge revivals
Routledge revivals.
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
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
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
SUBJECT Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 fast
Subject Masques, English -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century
Political plays, English -- History and criticism
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
Satire, English -- History and criticism
Courts and courtiers in literature.
Literary patrons -- Great Britain
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
Authors and patrons
Courts and courtiers in literature
Criticism and interpretation
Literary patrons
Masques, English
Political plays, English
Politics and literature
Satire, English
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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