Ben Jonson: A Collection of Critical EssaysJonas A. Barish Studies of the lusty Elizabethan's plays, masques, and poems. |
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... Macilente , the " man well parted , a sufficient Scholler , and travail'd , " approaches Jonson on another side , and more nearly . Jonson was too haughtily self - conscious for envy ; but the bitter gibes with which Macilente seeks to ...
... Macilente , the " man well parted , a sufficient Scholler , and travail'd , " approaches Jonson on another side , and more nearly . Jonson was too haughtily self - conscious for envy ; but the bitter gibes with which Macilente seeks to ...
Page 89
... Macilente enters explaining that he is possessed with envy , or Sogliardo announcing that he means to be a gentleman at all costs , we are reminded of the " program " speeches of the primitive Elizabethan stage . When Sordido hangs ...
... Macilente enters explaining that he is possessed with envy , or Sogliardo announcing that he means to be a gentleman at all costs , we are reminded of the " program " speeches of the primitive Elizabethan stage . When Sordido hangs ...
Page 91
... Macilente , whose humour ( like a flame ) no longer lasts Then it hath stuffe to feed it . Macilente was played by the same actor as Asper , and speaks the Epilogue significantly in Asper's place . In spite of his hint that " the shift ...
... Macilente , whose humour ( like a flame ) no longer lasts Then it hath stuffe to feed it . Macilente was played by the same actor as Asper , and speaks the Epilogue significantly in Asper's place . In spite of his hint that " the shift ...
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INTRODUCTIONJonas A Barish | 1 |
BEN JONSONT S Eliot | 14 |
H Herford | 82 |
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