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The Self-Centred Art - Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance (Paperback)
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The Self-Centred Art - Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the
actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the
idiosyncrasies of Jonson's comic characters were thrown into relief
in actors' part-scripts-scrolls containing a single actor's lines
and cues-some five hundred of which are reconstructed here from
Jonson's seventeen extant plays. Reading Jonson's spectating parts,
humorous parts, apprentice parts, and plotting parts, Boguszak
argues that the kind of self-absorption which defines so many of
Jonson's famous comic creations would have come easily to actors
relying on these documents. Jonson's actors would have moreover
worked on their cues, studied their speeches, and thought about the
information excluded from their parts differently, depending on the
type they had to play. Boguszak thus shows that Jonson brilliantly
adapted his comedies to the way the actors worked, making the
actors' self-centredness serve his art. This book addresses
Jonson's dealings with the actors as well as the printers of his
plays and supplements the discussion of different types of parts
with a colourful range of case studies. In doing so, it presents a
new way of understanding not just Ben Jonson, but early modern
theatre at large.
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