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Ben Jonson and the Four Emotions
… 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 emotional …
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English printed drama in collection before Jonson and Shakespeare
Benjamin Jonson’s Works (1616) and William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (1623) overwhelmingly dominate studies of the English drama collection. This critical focus has revealed much of what we know about the collection as a format for dramatic texts in early modern England, but …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… 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 Criticism …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… 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 Criticism …
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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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Jonson And Women; Or How One Man's Insistence On His Own Artistic Theory Challenges Dramatic Practices And Views Of His Own Gender Representations On The Elizabethan Stage
<p>Literary scholars consider Jonson's treatment of women "uninspiring" and "misogynistic." Surprisingly enough, however, there are no studies of Jonson's women to verify this categorization. This dissertation addresses the oversight, analyzing the female characters in the plays Jonson wrote during …
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Making English Low: A History of Laureate Poetics, 1399-1616
… 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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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 version …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… and serving food in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson are liminal activities, stationed on the threshold of old and new forms of hospitality, constructions of public and private, gender and work. Because these issues punctuate the broader economic and social restructuring of early modern …
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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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A study of early Caroline lyric verse with special attention to that of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick
… 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 criticism …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… 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
… 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, Among …
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The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance
… Hooker, Perkins, Spenser, Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson and Tourneur is that Hell is conflated with History during the transition to modernity, that sin is revalorized as individualism, and that the translatability of terms argues for the continuing need for a concept of 'substance' in this …
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Drawing, Writing, Embodying: John Hejduk's Masques Of Architecture
… 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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