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Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy

William W.E. Slights

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Description:Secrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays. Slights draws on the sociology of secrecy, the history of censorship, and the theory of hermeneutics to investigate secrecy, intrigue, and conspiracy as aspects of Jonsonian dramatic form, contemporary court/city/church politics, and textual interpretation. He argues that the tension between concealment and revelation in the plays affords a model for the poise that sustained Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre and that made him a pivotal figure in the cultural history of early modern England. Rejecting equally the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thoroughgoing court apologist, Slights finds that the playwright redraws the lines between private and public discourse for his own and subsequent ages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy. To get started finding Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Secrets accomplish their cultural work by distinguishing the knowable from the (at least temporarily) unknowable, those who know from those who don't. Within these distinctions resides an enormous power that Ben Jonson (1572-1637) both deplored and exploited in his art of making plays. Slights draws on the sociology of secrecy, the history of censorship, and the theory of hermeneutics to investigate secrecy, intrigue, and conspiracy as aspects of Jonsonian dramatic form, contemporary court/city/church politics, and textual interpretation. He argues that the tension between concealment and revelation in the plays affords a model for the poise that sustained Jonson in the intricately linked worlds of royal court and commercial theatre and that made him a pivotal figure in the cultural history of early modern England. Rejecting equally the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thoroughgoing court apologist, Slights finds that the playwright redraws the lines between private and public discourse for his own and subsequent ages.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy. To get started finding Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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