Ben Jonson has often been accused of needless erudition and of a morose refusal to join in the festive spirit. Further aggravation has come from the application of Bakhtin’s theory of carnival, especially in its posthumous form as a political allegory portraying the clash of high and low cultures. In an attempt to turn the tables on this tradition, Jonson Versus Bakhtin goes back to the sources, arguing that Jonson’s theatre allows for an original interpretation of the grotesque as a formal culture of antithesis and opposition that includes carnival. A robust observer of popular myths of festive liberation by way of a uniquely compendious adaptation of his sources, Jonson’s grotesque uncannily delves deep into the Renaissance theory of the coincidence of opposites as a way of envisaging virtue and other concepts of the mind, rather than serving up a pompous application of moral precepts or offering a political arena for ritual transgression. While richly based on an appropriate repertory of underlying sources, Jonson Versus Bakhtin steers away from any tiresome reference hunting mania, appealing to a broader audience interested in re-appraising Ben Jonson’s genius for richly contrastive imagery, as well as re-considering the relevance of Bakhtin’s theory to Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and to the Renaissance culture of the grotesque.
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This book looks at the concept of Carnival in a new light. Coronato's writing style is concise and easily read, which can be a nice change of pace in this area of scholarship. Definitley look to this book if you are interested in either Jonson's work or Bakhtin's theory.
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popular comic culture, carnivalesque shows, visual grotesque, carnivalesque motifs, first antimasque, carnivalesque rituals, carnivalesque excess, disguised ruler, carnivalesque inversion, popular carnival, festive rituals, grotesque realism, city comedy, carnival world, unruly women, festive comedy, sex reversal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harvard University Press, New York, Bartholmew Fair, Pleasure Reconciled, The Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Shrove Tuesday, Peniboy Senior, Bartholomew Fair, Roman History, The London Prodigal, Inigo Jones, Middle Ages, Italian Renaissance, Calends of January, Early Modern Europe, English Renaissance, Oxford University Press, Prince Charles, Bartbolmew Fair, British Library, John Taylor, Jonson's Epicoene, Jonsonian Cook New!
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- The Staple of News (Revels Plays) by Ben Jonson on 23 pages
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- The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque by David Bevington on 4 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Richard Harp on 4 pages
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