A01=James D. Mardock
Author_James D. Mardock
authorial
authorship construction
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Bartholomew Fair
Blackfriars Playhouse
Camera
career
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city
City Comedy
Dame Pliant
De Certeau's Model
De Certeau’s Model
early modern drama
Eastward Ho
English Renaissance literature
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Famous Voyage
Fleet Ditch
Jacobean City Comedy
Jonson's Career
Jonson's Strategy
Jonson's Texts
Jonsonian Ideal
jonsons
Jonson’s Career
Jonson’s Strategy
Jonson’s Texts
La Foole
literary topography
London Space
Lord Chamberlaine
Lord Mayor's Show
Lord Mayor’s Show
Lovewit's House
Lovewit’s House
Morose's House
Morose’s House
practice
Puppet Play
Royal Entry
SED
space
spatial
Spatial Practices
spatial practices in early modern London
strategy
theatricality studies
urban spatial theory
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9780415977630
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this thought-provoking study Mardock looks at Ben Jonson's epigrams, prose, and verse satire in order to focus on Jonson's theatrical appropriations of London space both in and out of the playhouse. Through this critical analysis, the author argues that the strategies of authorial definition that Jonson pursued throughout his career as a poet and playwright were in large part determined by two intersecting factors: first, his complicated relationship with London's physical places and its institutional topography, and secondly--challenging commonplace assumptions about Jonson's anti-theatricality--the distinctly theatrical model of spatial practice that he brought to bear on his representation of the urban experience. Although much criticism has focused on Jonson's role in the emergence of modern definitions of authorship, most has focused on the material contexts of the book trade, on the politics of Jonson's patronage, or on Jonson's self-construction as a neoclassical and primarily textual poet. Mardock engages with all these considerations, but with a focus on the dramatic practices of urban space--a growing concern among scholars of early-modern drama--as a consistent factor in Jonson's authorial claims.
James Mardock is Associate Professor of English and Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno, US.
