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Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Slights, William W. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Secret Places in Renaissance Drama
  • 2. Mystifying the Tyrant and Enforcing the Text: Impossible Combinations in Sejanus
  • 3. The Play of Conspiracies in Volpone
  • 4. Private Lies, Public Notice: Epicoene and Theatrical Deception
  • 5. The New Face of Secrecy in The Alchemist
  • 6. Catiline's Conspiracy and the Problem of Containment
  • 7. State-Decipherers and Politique Picklockes: Interpretation as Self-Replication in Bartholomew Fair.