Ben Jonson's antimasques a history of growth and decline /: a history of growth and decline. (2018 c1999)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Ben Jonson's antimasques a history of growth and decline /: a history of growth and decline. (2018 c1999)
- Main Title:
- Ben Jonson's antimasques a history of growth and decline
- Further Information:
- Note: Lesley Mickel.
- Other Names:
- Mickel, Lesley
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The antimasque: a history of growth and decline; Jonson and Barthes; Readers as understanders: Jonsonian masque in the twentieth century; Some speculative conclusions on the growth of the anti masque; 1 'Free from servile flattery': panegyric and the formation of the antimasque; Jonsonian panegyric: a textual criticism of 'To Sir Robert Wroth'; Desire and difference: The Masque of Blackness and The Masque o f Beauty; 2 Arthur and Augustus: masque and the historical myth; History and myth Jonson and the chivalric idealReading the chivalric masques; Harsh and unendurable government: the Roman plays; Reconciling Rome and London; 3 Present occasions and removed mysteries: the topicality of the antimasque; Hymenaei; Love Restored; Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court; To make readers understanders; Satire and the authoritative community; 4 Jonson's consuming satire and the carnivalesque antimasque; Bartholomew Fair and the antimasque; The carnivalesque antimasque: Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly and The Irish Masque at Court Some conclusions on the expansion of the antimasque5 Heavenly love and the collapse of the court masque; Love's Triumph Through Callipolis; The collapse of the dialogic masque; Caroline masque as the absolutist ritual; Postscript; Jonson's heirs: Shirley and Milton; The Triumph Of Peace -- Comus; Bibliography; Index
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Copyright Date:
- 1999
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 822/.3
Masques, English -- History and criticism
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Authors and patrons -- England -- History -- 17th century
Political plays, English -- History and criticism
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature
Satire, English -- History and criticism
Courts and courtiers in literature
Literary patrons -- Great Britain
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Electronic books
Dramatic works - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780429460685
0429460686
9780429864445
0429864442 - Related ISBNs:
- 1138610135
9781138610132 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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