Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value
(Part of the New Cultural Studies Series)
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To many of their contemporaries, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton were little more than artisanal craftsmen, "stage-wrights" who wrote plays for money, to be performed in common playhouses and in a manner often antithetical to what Jonson himself viewed as the higher calling of poetry. In response to the conflicting pressures of censorship and commercialism, Paul Yachnin contends, players and dramatists alike had promulgated...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812233956
ISBN13:9780812233957
Release Date:May 1997
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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