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- catalog abstract "Secrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays. Slights draws on the sociology of secrecy, the history of censorship, and the theory of hermeneutics to investigate secrecy, intrigue, and conspiracy as aspects of Jonsonian dramatic form, contemporary court/city/church politics, and textual interpretation. He argues that the tension between concealment and revelation in the plays affords a model for the poise that sustained Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre and that made him a pivotal figure in the cultural history of early modern England. Rejecting equally the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thoroughgoing court apologist, Slights finds that the playwright redraws the lines between private and public discourse for his own and subsequent ages.".
- catalog contributor b6590914.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Secret Places in Renaissance Drama -- 2. Mystifying the Tyrant and Enforcing the Text: Impossible Combinations in Sejanus -- 3. The Play of Conspiracies in Volpone -- 4. Private Lies, Public Notice: Epicoene and Theatrical Deception -- 5. The New Face of Secrecy in The Alchemist -- 6. Catiline's Conspiracy and the Problem of Containment -- 7. State-Decipherers and Politique Picklockes: Interpretation as Self-Replication in Bartholomew Fair.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.".
- catalog description "Rejecting equally the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thoroughgoing court apologist, Slights finds that the playwright redraws the lines between private and public discourse for his own and subsequent ages.".
- catalog description "Secrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays. Slights draws on the sociology of secrecy, the history of censorship, and the theory of hermeneutics to investigate secrecy, intrigue, and conspiracy as aspects of Jonsonian dramatic form, contemporary court/city/church politics, and textual interpretation. He argues that the tension between concealment and revelation in the plays affords a model for the poise that sustained Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre and that made him a pivotal figure in the cultural history of early modern England.".
- catalog extent "viii, 241 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy.".
- catalog identifier "0802004628 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
- catalog relation "Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "822/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Communication in literature.".
- catalog subject "Conspiracies in literature.".
- catalog subject "Conversation in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dialogue.".
- catalog subject "Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "PR2642.S36 S59 1994".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Secrecy in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Secret Places in Renaissance Drama -- 2. Mystifying the Tyrant and Enforcing the Text: Impossible Combinations in Sejanus -- 3. The Play of Conspiracies in Volpone -- 4. Private Lies, Public Notice: Epicoene and Theatrical Deception -- 5. The New Face of Secrecy in The Alchemist -- 6. Catiline's Conspiracy and the Problem of Containment -- 7. State-Decipherers and Politique Picklockes: Interpretation as Self-Replication in Bartholomew Fair.".
- catalog title "Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy / William W.E. Slights.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".