Three ComediesPenguin, 1 בינו׳ 1966 - 488 עמודים Shakespearers"s nearest rival created in Volpone and The Alchemist hilarious portraits of cupidity and chicanery, while in Bartholomew Fair he portrays his fellow Londoners at their most festive-and most bawdy. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 70
עמוד 9
... play which is inherently inferior to Shakespearean comedy . They are comic masterpieces in their own right , but in a different tradition . Jonson's best work for the theatre operates within narrow limits ; it does not have the ...
... play which is inherently inferior to Shakespearean comedy . They are comic masterpieces in their own right , but in a different tradition . Jonson's best work for the theatre operates within narrow limits ; it does not have the ...
עמוד 11
... play of the seventeenth century , the tragedy educated people were expected to admire.1 Jonson's later plays , which Dryden termed ' dotages ' , show a sad falling - off . In 1616 Jonson published in folio The Workes of Beniamin Jonson ...
... play of the seventeenth century , the tragedy educated people were expected to admire.1 Jonson's later plays , which Dryden termed ' dotages ' , show a sad falling - off . In 1616 Jonson published in folio The Workes of Beniamin Jonson ...
עמוד 15
... play are , through their names , invested with animal symbolism ( Wolf , Fly , Vulture , Raven , and Crow ) , and ... play an opulence of production and décors as peculiarly necessary to emphasize the preoccupation with affluence and ...
... play are , through their names , invested with animal symbolism ( Wolf , Fly , Vulture , Raven , and Crow ) , and ... play an opulence of production and décors as peculiarly necessary to emphasize the preoccupation with affluence and ...
עמוד 17
... play as a piece of theatre , and literary commentators have insufficiently stressed the superb theatricalism of Jonson's great comedy , which stems in part from Volpone's self - congratulatory acting throughout the play . He is a ...
... play as a piece of theatre , and literary commentators have insufficiently stressed the superb theatricalism of Jonson's great comedy , which stems in part from Volpone's self - congratulatory acting throughout the play . He is a ...
עמוד 18
Ben Jonson Michael Jamieson. potential benefactor . This is the central scene of the play , and it is a great moment in the theatre when , as Celia droops by the bed , Volpone throws off the furs , the caps , the make - up of the senile ...
Ben Jonson Michael Jamieson. potential benefactor . This is the central scene of the play , and it is a great moment in the theatre when , as Celia droops by the bed , Volpone throws off the furs , the caps , the make - up of the senile ...
תוכן
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO VOLPONE | 37 |
EPISTLE TO VOLPONE | 41 |
VOLPONE OR THE FOX | 49 |
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO THE ALCHEMIST | 175 |
A NOTE ON ALCHEMY | 179 |
THE ALCHEMIST | 185 |
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO BARTHOLOMEW FAIR | 321 |
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR | 325 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES TO VOLPONE | 463 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE ALCHEMIST | 473 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES TO BARTHOLOMEW FAIR | 480 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Alchemist ANANIAS AVOCATORE believe better bring BUSY Captain CELIA COKES comedy comes CORBACCIO CORVINO court DAME DAPPER Doctor DOL COMMON DRUGGER EDGWORTH Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FACE Fair faith father fear follow fool fortune gentlemen give gold gone GRACE hand hath head hear heart hope I'll John Jonson Justice KASTRIL keep knight KNOCKEM LADY WOULD-BE LEATHERHEAD leave LITTLEWIT live look LOVEWIT MAMMON mark Master means MISTRESS MISTRESS LITTLEWIT MOSCA NEIGHBOUR never NIGHTINGALE Note Numps OVERDO PEREGRINE play poor pray present PUPPET QUARLOUS SCENE SIR POLITIC sister speak spirit stand stay Stone SUBTLE SURLY tell thee there's thing thou thought true unto URSULA vapours VOLPONE VOLTORE warrant WASP WHIT wife WINWIFE woman worship young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 18 - The milk of unicorns, and panthers' breath Gather'd in bags and mixt with Cretan wines. Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber ; Which we will take until my roof whirl round With the vertigo ; and my dwarf shall dance, My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic, Whilst we, in change'd shapes, act Ovid's tales; Thou like Europa now, and I like...