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Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics
J. Sanders
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Description for Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics
Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312214982
SKU
V9780312214982
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99-15
About J. Sanders
Julie Sanders is Lecturer in English at Keele University.
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