Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas MiddletonUniversity of Delaware Press, 2001 - 191 من الصفحات "Between Theater and Philosophy studies the aggressive, restless, and critical skepticism of the major city comedies of early modern English dramatists Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. The book places the city comedies in the context of the battle between theater and philosophy declared by Plato's expulsion of theater from his ideal republic."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Volpone and the Dystopian Turn | 23 |
Epicoene and Knowing by Tradition | 58 |
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A. H. Bullen Alchemist alchemy alien Allwit appearance argues avocatori Bacon Barish Bartholomew Fair Ben Jonson birth body Cambridge capital Catch the Old Chaste Maid Cheapside city comedy collegiate ladies comic consumption Country Wench Courtesan Dampit Dauphine desire discourse dramatic dystopian Early Modern England economic English Epicoene Epicoene's epistemological exchange fantasies festivity fictional world Foole Francis Bacon gentry gulls Hoard humanist Ibid Jacobean Jonson justice knowledge legacy hunters Lethe Lethe's Lovewit Lucre Maid in Cheapside Mammon marriage material Michaelmas Term Mistress Moll Moll's moral Morose Morose's nature Overdo Oxford paradox patriarchal order Penguin performance philosophy plague play play's end prodigal Quomodo reality Rearage relationship Renaissance Renaissance Drama rogues satire scene sexual skeptical social mobility social order society space stage status Subtle Subtle's theater theatrical Thomas Middleton tion Touchwood Senior tradition Trick to Catch Truewit's truth underworld University Press utopian Volpone Volpone's wealth Whorehound Witgood wits Yellowhammer