Jonsonians : living traditions / edited by Brian Woolland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woolland, Brian, 1949-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in performance and early modern drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637--Dramatic works.

Jonson, Ben.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637--Influence.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

English drama--History and criticism.

English drama.

Drama.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

Part I Jonsonian Theatre

2 Poetaster: Jonson and his Audience / Richard A. Cave 13

3 Sejanus his Fall: Does Arruntius Cry at Night? / Brian Woolland 27

4 Bartholomew Fair: All the Fun of the Fair / Peter Barnes 43

5 The New Inn and The Magnetic Lady: Jonson's Dramaturgy in the Caroline Context / Julie Sanders 51

Part II Sons and Daughters of Ben

6 The Playwriting Sons of Ben: Nathan Field and Richard Brome / Richard A. Cave 69

7 'This Play will be mine A[rse]': Aphra Behn's Jonsonian Negotiations / Carolyn D. Williams 93

8 Daughters of Ben / Alison Findlay 107

Part III Jonsonians in the Modern Period

9 Embarrassments to the Tidy Mind: John Arden and Ben Jonson / Stephen Lacey 123

10 'A deal of monstrous and forced action': Joe Orton and Ben Jonson / John Bull 137

11 His very own Ben: Peter Barnes and Ben Jonson / Brian Woolland 153

12 The Language of Carnival: Strategies of Overthrowing from Ben Jonson to Caryl Churchill / Claudia Manera 167

13 'Real but not Realistic': Alan Ayckbourn and Ben Jonson / Richard Allen Cave 187

14 Tricksters, Hucksters and Suckers: Jonsonian Cinema / Brian Woolland 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-236) and index.

ISBN:

0754606104

OCLC:

51437689