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Shakespeare and the Poets´ War
James Bednarz
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Description for Shakespeare and the Poets´ War
Hardback. Traces Shakespeare's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. This book offers a reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters", revealing Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Num Pages: 266 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when ... Read more
In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
266
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231122429
SKU
V9780231122429
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About James Bednarz
James P. Bednarz is professor of English at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, where he has received the Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching. His articles on Elizabethan literary relations have appeared in a wide range of journals including ELH, Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Drama, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, The Huntington Library Quarterly, and Spenser ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare and the Poets´ War
The first detailed study of the 'war of the theaters' for some time, and beyond the care and rigor of Bednarz's reading and reconstruction of the event, its real innovation is to position Shakespeare... along with Dekker, Marston, and Jonson in the most famous literary/theatrical controversy of the era... Bednarz's imaginative and critical sophistication should renew attention to this central ... Read more