Ben Jonson's antimasques a history of growth and decline /: a history of growth and decline. (2018 c1999)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.
• Access Rights: 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).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.