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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.
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History, Dialogue, Politics and literature, Literature and society, Political and social views, Secrecy in literature, Conversation in literature, Communication in literature, Conspiracies in literature, Jonson, ben, 1573-1637, Criticism and interpretationPeople
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2016, University of Toronto Press
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