The Idea of the City in the Age of ShakespeareUniversity of Georgia Press, 1 lut 2012 - 264 Gail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson. Paster moves beyond the usual presentation of the city-country dichotomy to reveal a series of oppositions that operate within the city's walls. These oppositions—city of God and city of man, Jerusalem and Rome, bride of the Lamb and whore of Babylon, ideal and real—together create a dual image of the city as a visionary ideal society and as a predatory trap, founded in fratricide, shadowed in guilt. In the theater, this duality affects the fate of early modern city dwellers, who exemplify even as they are controlled by this contradictory reality. |
Spis treści
ONE Out of One CityTwo | 9 |
Horace Juvenal | 33 |
Shakespeares Idea | 58 |
Timon of Athens Sejanus | 91 |
Jonsons Masques | 124 |
The City as Predator | 150 |
Shakespeares City | 178 |
CONCLUSION A Bounty of Contradictions | 220 |
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Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
action ambivalence ancient Angelo antimasque Antipholus Antonio appetite architectural audience Bartholomew Fair Bassanio becomes behavior body bounty brother Brutus Catiline celebration central characters Cheapside Cicero citizen city comedy city's civic classical Claudio comic city contrast Coriolanus death dramatic duke duke's earthly city Elizabethan entertainments Ephesus expression hero historical Horace Horace's human idea of Rome ideal city imagery imaginative individual ironic irony Isabella Jonson and Middleton Julius Caesar Juvenal London masque and pageant masquers means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Michaelmas Term monument moral mother nature onstage patricians physical Plautine Plautus play poet political Portia predatory present Quomodo relationship Renaissance represents reveals rhetorical Roman romanitas Rome's Satires scene Sejanus Sejanus's sense sexual Shakespeare Shylock social order suggests symbol theater theme Thomas Middleton Tiberius Tiberius's Timon of Athens tion Titus Andronicus trans triumph twin urban Venetian Volpone Volumnia whore