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The Social Relations of Jonson's Theater

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Social Relations of Jonson's Theater
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jonathan Haynes
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:158
Dimensions(mm): Height 237,Width 158
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780521419185
ClassificationsDewey:822.3
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 28 August 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The author considers the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson a realist and an acute observer of the transformation from feudalism to capitalism with many of the forms and purposes of Jonson's realism resulting from the social dynamics of the London theater audience. Haynes presents a detailed literary historical argument about the sources and consequences of Jonson's realism and examines the entanglements of life and art in Jonson's time both through a look at the life of that period and through insightful readings of Jonson's plays. The book is informed by the new social history and polemicizes against the moral and formal preoccupations of the past two generations of Jonson criticism.