Puppets, Sexlessness, and the Dumbfounding of Male Epistemology in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1353/sel.2020.0016

R. Darcy

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Abstract

Abstract:Ben Jonson excluded Bartholomew Fair from his momentous Workes (1616), which might have indicated ambivalence in him about the play's social project. In exploring gender and authority, the play's festival setting abandons male vocality and its broadcast of certainty and knowledge. The puppets' sexlessness, revealed at play's end, renders Puritanical arguments about gender and cross-dressing irrelevant and foolish in the space of human affairs. Yet such a conclusion for Jonson, who was slavishly attentive to Classical regulations of the theater, may betray a moment of artistic doubt after the failure of Catiline and uncertainty about his legacy as a dramatist.

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约翰逊的《巴塞洛缪集市》中的木偶、无性与男性认识论的哑巴

摘要:本·琼生将《巴塞洛缪·费尔》排除在他的重要作品(1616)之外，这可能表明他对该剧的社会项目存在矛盾心理。在探索性别和权威的过程中，该剧的节日背景放弃了男性的声音和对确定性和知识的传播。木偶的无性，在戏剧的结尾显露出来，使得清教徒关于性别和变装的争论在人类事务的空间里变得无关紧要和愚蠢。然而，这样的结论对于醉心于古典戏剧规则的约翰逊来说，可能会暴露出他在《卡提林》失败后对艺术的怀疑，以及他作为剧作家的遗产的不确定性。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.

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