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- catalog abstract "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 play-houses and in a manner of the 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 the idea of drama's irrelevance, creating a recreational theater that failed to influence its audience in any purposeful way. In Stage-Wrights Yachnin shows how Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton struggled to reclaim not only the importance of their art, but their own social legitimacy as well through the reshaping of the commercial theater. His bold readings of their works unveil the strategies by which they sought power from their privileged but powerless position on the margins. Adopting a hermeneutical approach, he explores a wide range of historical evidence to describe how English Renaissance drama depicted the world in ways refracted by the interests of the playing companies; throughout, he challenges recent historicist models that have overrated the importance of dramatic productions to society and its institutions of authority.".
- catalog alternative "Stagewrights".
- catalog contributor b10233971.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. The Powerless Theater -- 2. Desdemona's Voice: Historical Interpretation and the Operations of Minds -- 3. The Knowledge Marketplace -- 4. Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy -- 5. Reflections of Theater in the "Tragic Glass" from Marlowe to Middleton -- 6. "Gargantua's Mouth": Orality, Voice, and the Gender of Theatrical Power.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-204) and index.".
- catalog description "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 play-houses and in a manner of the 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 the idea of drama's irrelevance, creating a recreational theater that failed to influence its audience in any purposeful way. In Stage-Wrights Yachnin shows how Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton struggled to reclaim not only the importance of their art, but their own social legitimacy as well through the reshaping of the commercial theater. His bold readings of their works unveil the strategies by which they sought power from their privileged but powerless position on the margins. Adopting a hermeneutical approach, he explores a wide range of historical evidence to describe how English Renaissance drama depicted the world in ways refracted by the interests of the playing companies; throughout, he challenges recent historicist models that have overrated the importance of dramatic productions to society and its institutions of authority.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 210 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Stage-wrights.".
- catalog identifier "0812233956 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Stage-wrights.".
- catalog isPartOf "New cultural studies".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog relation "Stage-wrights.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "822/.309 21".
- catalog subject "Authorship History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Authorship History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
- catalog subject "English drama 17th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Middleton, Thomas, -1627 Technique.".
- catalog subject "PR658.S46 Y33 1997".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Technique.".
- catalog subject "Theater and society England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Theater and society England History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Powerless Theater -- 2. Desdemona's Voice: Historical Interpretation and the Operations of Minds -- 3. The Knowledge Marketplace -- 4. Instituting Mirth in Renaissance Comedy -- 5. Reflections of Theater in the "Tragic Glass" from Marlowe to Middleton -- 6. "Gargantua's Mouth": Orality, Voice, and the Gender of Theatrical Power.".
- catalog title "Stage-wrights : Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the making of theatrical value / Paul Yachnin.".
- catalog title "Stagewrights".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".