Jonsonians : living traditions
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Jonsonians : living traditions
(Studies in performance and early modern drama)
Ashgate, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-236) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Jonsonians" explores the theatrical traditions within which Ben Jonson was working, investigates the ways in which his work has influenced and informed the development of theatre from the early 17th century to the present day, and examines Jonson's theatre in relation to 20th- and 21st-century traditions of performance. It argues that although Jonsonian traditions are rarely acknowledged, they are vibrant and powerful forces that are very much alive today in the theatre of writers and directors as diverse as Caryl Churchill, David Mamet, Spike Lee, John Arden, Alan Ayckbourn and Peter Barnes. The book opens with essays on "Poetaster", "Sejanus", "Bartholomew Fair", "The New Inn" and "The Magnetic Lady" - each of which interrogates, in a variety of ways, the notion of "Jonsonian" theatre and considers the relationships of Jonson's theatre to classical traditions, to his contemporaries in England and Europe, and to modern performance practice and theory. The second section of the book includes essays on "The Sons of Ben" (including Richard Brome) Aphra Behn and "Daughters of Ben" (women working in the theatre in the post-Restoration period).
The book concludes with an extensive section devoted to modern day Jonsonians, exploring how reading their work as Jonsonian might alter perceptions of contemporary theatre, and how seeing them as contemporary "Jonsonians" might affect our understanding of Jonson's theatre.
Table of Contents
- Jonsonian Theatre: Poetaster: Jonson and his audience - Richard Cave
- Sejanus his Fall: does Arruntius cry at night? - Brian Woolland
- Bartholomew Fair: all the fun of the fair - Peter Barnes
- The New Inn and The Magnetic Lady: Jonson's dramaturgy in the Caroline context - Julie Sanders. Sons and daughters of Ben: The playwriting sons of Ben: Nathan Field and Richard Brome - Richard Cave
- 'This Play will be mine A[rse]': Aphra Behn's Jonsonian negotiations - Carolyn Williams
- Daughters of Ben - Alison Findlay. Jonsonians in the modern period: Embarrassments to the tidy mind: John Arden and Ben Jonson - Stephen Lacey
- 'A deal of monstrous and forced action': Joe Orton and Ben Jonson - John Bull
- His very own Ben: Peter Barnes and Ben Jonson - Brian Woolland
- The language of carnival: strategies of overthrowing from Ben Jonson to Caryl Churchill - Claudia Manera
- 'Real but not realistic': Alan Ayckbourn and Ben Jonson - Richard Cave
- Tricksters - hucksters and suckers: Jonsonian cinema - Brian Woolland.
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