An edition of Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy (1994)

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An edition of Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy (1994)

Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy

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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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English
Pages
241

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Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
2017, University of Toronto Press
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Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy
2016, University of Toronto Press
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Cover of: Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy
Ben Jonson and the art of secrecy
1994, University of Toronto Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.

Published in
Toronto, Buffalo

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
822/.3
Library of Congress
PR2642.S36 S59 1994, PR2642.S36S59 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 241 p. ;
Number of pages
241

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL854735M
Internet Archive
benjonsonartofse0000slig
ISBN 10
0802004628
LCCN
95135917, cn94931629
OCLC/WorldCat
30972254
Goodreads
3594220

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