Ben Jonson, John Marston and early modern drama : satire and the audience / Rebecca Yearling, Lecturer in English, Keele University, UK.

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Yearling, Rebecca Kate, 1979- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Description
ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm

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    "This book examines the influence of John Marston, typically seen as a minor figure among early modern dramatists, on his colleague Ben Jonson. While Marston is usually famed more for his very public rivalry with Jonson than for the quality of his plays, this book argues that such a view of Marston seriously underestimates his importance to the theatre of his time. In it, the author contends that Marston's plays represent an experiment in a new kind of satiric drama, with origins in the humanist tradition of serio ludere. His works--deliberately unpredictable, inconsistent and metatheatrical--subvert theatrical conventions and provide confusingly multiple perspectives on the action, forcing their spectators to engage actively with the drama and the moral dilemmas that it presents. The book argues that Marston's work thus anticipates and perhaps influenced the mid-period work of Ben Jonson, in plays such as Sejanus, Volpone and The Alchemist"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-218) and index.
    Contents
    • Why does Marston Matter?
    • The Problem of the Audience
    • The Playwrights and the Audience
    • Dramatic Satire and the Crisis of Authority
    • John Marston: Provoking the Audience
    • Jonson and Marston: 'I write just in thy vein, I'.
    ISBN
    • 9781137563989 ((hardcover))
    • 1137563982 ((hardcover))
    • 9781137563996 ((e-book))
    • 1137563990
    LCCN
    2015025940
    OCLC
    917339485
    Other standard number
    • 40025794467
    • 40025793194
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