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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yearling, Rebecca Kate, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marston, John, 1575?-1634--Criticism and interpretation.

Marston, John.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637--Criticism and interpretation.

Jonson, Ben.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

Marston, John, 1575?-1634.

Theater--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Theater.

Theater--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Theater audiences.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--17th century--History and criticism.

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

Theater audiences--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Theater audiences--Great Britain--History--17th century.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

"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.

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'.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137563989

1137563982

OCLC:

917339485

Publisher Number:

40025793194