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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Ben Jonson"”.
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Ben Jonson and the Four Emotions
This dissertation offers a revisionary reading of Ben Jonson's corpus and a challenge to current approaches to the study of the history of emotions. Focusing on the traditional four fundamental emotions–desire, fear, grief, and happiness–,I show that Jonson's corpus presents a wider range of …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis through the Psychoanalytic Literary …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… and mythology in the drama of Wole Soyinka and Ben Jonson with special focus on The Strong Breed and Death and the King’s Horseman by Soyinka and Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue and The Golden Age Restored by Jonson. The study uses close textual analysis through the Psychoanalytic Literary …
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Inventing 'living emblems': emblem tradition in the masques of Ben Jonson, 1605-1618
While it is widely held that Ben Jonson uses emblem tradition in the development of imagery in his court masques and entertainments, how or why Jonson employs this genre of word-image combinations is rarely addressed. This thesis offers an explanation for what is often assumed in studies of …
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Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London
<p>Ben Jonson's comedies seem to present an almost entirely negative view of women; the plays are full of misogynistic language and their portrayal of women looks bleak. The good women in his comedies, such as Celia in <em>Volpone</em> or Dame Pliant in <em>The Alchemist</em>, are passive, weak …
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A Comparison of the Moral and Aesthetic Vision of Three Seventeenth-Century Dramatists: Corneille, Moliere, and Ben Jonson
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A critical edition of the manuscript of Thomas Shadwell's 'The Humorists'
… satire in classical times, in the plays of Ben Jonson and in the Restoration period. Shadwell's own practice in The Sullen Lovers is analysed to demonstrate his combination of personal and general satire and to show the clear influence on him of some of Martial's Epigrams. The manuscript …
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Making English Low: A History of Laureate Poetics, 1399-1616
… (c. 1367-1426), John Skelton (c. 1460-1529), and Ben Jonson (1572-1637). In so doing, my project proposes a new approach to early English laureateship. Previous studies assume that aspiration English writers fashioned their new mantles exclusively from high learning, refined verse, and the moral …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in the wake of humanist education’s cultural ascent. As London’s early commercial playwrights, trained in humanist …
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Conceptions of milk (and 'milking') in seventeenth-century England
… Shakespeare, as well as Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson. It relates this to both male and female lactation, focussing upon how seminal 'milk' and its ejaculation reflected superior and anxious notions of masculinity. Thus, it will argue that conceptions of femininity and animality cannot be …
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Robert Southwell Exponent of Religious Poetry in the Elizabethan Age
… And in short measures, life may perfect be. " |Ben Jonson could have had the Jesuit poet, Robert Southwell, in mind when he wrote the lines quoted above, for certainly they well apply to the lovable crusader for better norms in the art of poetry In the troubled times of the Elizabethan Age, …
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Drawing, Writing, Embodying: John Hejduk's Masques Of Architecture
… to the Stuart Court Masque, the invention poet Ben Jonson and architect Inigo Jones, or what the links in Hejduk's masques to the emblem books, which are the heart of the Court Masque. The following dissertation will undertake an explication of two key Hejduk texts as means to demonstrate the …
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Republicanism and stoicism in Renaissance neo-Senecan drama.
… as well as the Roman tragedies of Thomas Kyd and Ben Jonson, which are characterised, to varying degrees, by their appropriation of continental models of neo-classical tragedy practised by the French tragedian Robert Gamier. The idea, promulgated by several early twentieth century critics, that …
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Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama
… of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson register a certain type of male character who is capable of discerning listening, an action that becomes an agent of specific masculine authority and identity. However, rumor's inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy poses the greatest …
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Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature
… of John Marston and William Shakespeare. Unlike Ben Jonson, who incorporated both Senecan tragedy and Elizabethan satire in his drama but did so in different plays (Catiline, Every Man Out), Marston and Shakespeare combined the two traditions in one and the same play, such as the former's …
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Playwright and Man of God: Religion and Convention in the Comic Plays of John Marston
… his great contemporaries William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. In the last two centuries, his works were hardly taken on their own terms but were perceived instead in overt or implicit comparison to Shakespeare’s or Jonson’s. As a result, Marston’s plays acquired the lasting but unfair image of …
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A study of early Caroline lyric verse with special attention to that of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick
… and reworked. The influence of John Donne and Ben Jonson is seen to have been considerable. Donne had provided a model of personal, dramatic and closely-reasoned “strong lines”. And Jonson encouraged controlled reliance on classical poets “as Guides, not Commanders”, and wrote poetry and …
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Three Studies in Characterization
<p>THE WOMEN OF BEN JONSON IN <em>EPICOENE</em> AND <em>BARTHOLOMEW</em> <em>FAIR</em>.<em> </em>This paper compares and contrasts the method variations that cause the women of <em>Epicoene</em> to be less interesting and more stereotyped than those of <em>Bartholomew Fair.</em></p> <p>Basically, …
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