Jonson and Elizabethan comedy : essays in dramatic rhetoric / L.A. Beaurline
1978, First Edition. San Marino, California : Huntington Library. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409143
ISBN: 0873280717
Physical description; xi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Series; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Huntington library publications. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Jonson, Shakespeare and the divided audience -- Loving and understanding -- From Reformation to accommodation -- Dissimulation and symbiosis -- Comedy of admiration -- The religious and humanist traditions -- Sidney's apology for right comedy -- Lyly and Shakespeare -- Sapho and Phao -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- The wonder of comic satire -- Every Man out of His Humor -- Cynthia's Revels -- Poetaster -- Comic language in Volpone -- Corvino's comic iterations -- Exuberant speech -- Gorgeous speech -- The illusion of completeness -- The rhetoric of completeness -- The design of The Alchemist and Epicoene -- Satire and play -- The real presence of Vulgarity in Bartholomew Fair -- Travesty of disputation -- Jonson's interest in moch heroics -- Swinish vapors and the Legend of Circe -- Humanizing powers -- Romance in a diminished mode -- The Old Mirth and The New Inn -- A Tale of a Tub -- The catalogical imperative -- Epilogue: Meanings of the Broken Compass. Subjects; Jonson, Ben 1573?-1637 Comedies. Jonson, Ben 1573?-1637 Criticism and interpretation. Jonson, Ben ; Studies. English drama (Comedy) History and criticism. English language Early modern, 1500-1700 Rhetoric. English drama (Comedy). English language Early modern Rhetoric. Humorous plays. English drama (Comedy) Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism. Elizabethan drama History. Jacobean drama.
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