Shakespeare and the Poets' WarIn a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599. |
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... Little Eyases " : Theatrical Politics in Hamlet 225 An Armed Epilogue : Troilus and Cressida and the Impact of the Poets ' War 257 CHRONOLOGICAL APPENDIX 265 NOTES 277 INDEX 325 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK , the result of my continuing ...
... little eyases " allusion into Hamlet to deride Jonson at Blackfriars . More important in this regard , however , is the manner in which this self - revision was affected by both writers rethinking each other's dramatic forms . The ...
... little eyases " passage of Hamlet . Between Jonson's aggressive manifesto and defensive apology , the Poets ' War rioted across London's public and private stages in three waves of con- tention , each phase of which was triggered by a ...
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Contents
Shakespeares Purge of Jonson The Theatrical Context of Troilus and Cressida | 19 |
PART ONE | 53 |
Jonson on Shakespeare Criticism as SelfCreation | 55 |
Representing Jonson Histriomastix and the Origin of the Poets War | 83 |
Shakespeare in Love The Containment of Comical Satire in As You Like It | 105 |
Marstons Festive Comedy Punishing Jonson in Jack Drums Entertainment | 133 |
PART TWO | 153 |
The War of the Private Theaters Cynthias Revels or What You Will | 155 |
Shakespeare at the Fountain of SelfLove Twelfth Night at the Center of the Poets War | 175 |