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基本説明
In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War.
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In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599. Bednarz redraws the Poets' War as a debate on the social function of drama and the status of the dramatist that involved not only Shakespeare and Jonson but also the lesser known John Marston and Thomas Dekker.
He shows how this controversy, triggered by Jonson's bold new dramatic experiments, directly influenced the writing of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet, gave rise to the first modern drama criticism in English, and shaped the way we still perceive Shakespeare today.
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Elizabethan Dramatists as Literary Critics 1. Shakespeare's Purge of Jonson: The Theatrical Context of Troilus and Cressida Part 1 2. Jonson on Shakespeare: Criticism as Self-Creation 3. Representing Jonson: Histriomastix and the Origin of the Poets' War 4. Shakespeare in Love: The Containment of Comical Satire in As You Like It 5. Marston's Festive Comedy: Punishing Jonson in Jack Drum's Entertainment Part 2 6. The War of the Private Theaters: Cynthia's Revels or What You Will 7. Shakespeare at the Fountain of Self-Love: Twelfth Night at the Center of the Poets' War Part 3 8. "Impeaching Your Own Quality": Constructions of Poetic Authority in Poetaster and Satiromastix 9. Ben Jonson and the "Little Eyases": Theatrical Politics in Hamlet An Armed Epilogue: Troilus and Cressida and the Impact of the Poets' War Chronological Appendix
