Stage-Wrights: Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and the Making of Theatrical Value (New Cultural Studies) [Hardcover]

Paul Yachnin (Author)

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Publication Date: June 1997 | Series: New Cultural Studies

In Stage-Wrights, Paul Yachnin, shows how William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton struggled to reclaim not only the importance of their art, but their own social legitimacy as well through the reshaping of the commercial theater. Adopting a hermeneutical approach, the author explores a wide range of historical evidence to describe how English Renaissance drama depicted the world in ways refracted by the interests of the playing companies; throughout, he challenges recent historicist models that have overrated the importance of dramatic productions to society and its institutions of authority.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (June 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812233956
ISBN-13: 978-0812233957
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,643,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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