Jonson and Shakespeare

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
The Fool as Clergyman (and Vice-versa): an Essay on Shakespearian Comedy....Pages 1-17
Hal and Hamlet: the Loneliness of Integrity....Pages 18-34
Remembrance and Revenge: Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest ....Pages 35-56
Troilus and Cressida....Pages 57-73
Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s View of Public Theatre Audiences....Pages 74-88
The Idea of the Play in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Bartholomew Fair ....Pages 89-100
Comic Procedures in Shakespeare and Jonson: Much Ado About Nothing and The Alchemist ....Pages 101-118
‘Sportful Malice’: Duping in the Comedies of Jonson and Shakespeare....Pages 119-134
The Rusticity of Ben Jonson....Pages 135-155
Staging Jonson....Pages 156-162
Stage Perspective and Elevation in Coriolanus and Sejanus ....Pages 163-178
The Roman State in Julius Caesar and Sejanus ....Pages 179-201
Insubstantial Pageants Preserved: the Literary and Musical Sources for the Jonsonian Masque....Pages 202-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-221