Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton

Mathew R. Martin

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Country
United States
Published
1 September 2001
Pages
191
ISBN
9781611491982

Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton

Mathew R. Martin

This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton in the context of the quarrel between theater and philosophy. The book presents deconstructive and materialist readings of Jonson’s Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair and Middleton’s Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.

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