Amiable Shakespeare Jonson？ -A Contrastive Myth between Shakespearean and Jonsonian Comedies

• 作者: 廖运刚
• 来源期刊: 英语广场：学术研究
• 学科: 文学
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（5）
• 页码范围: 13-17
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: I106

摘要

Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventeenth,eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.People believed or were led to believe that Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies were in clear opposition:Shakespeare’s comedies were sweet,romantic,amiable,popular and entertaining,whereas Jonson’s were based on an abstract theory of humors,cold,satiric,pedantic,and moralizing.Only in the last century did these oppositions begin to change,but too slowly.This paper calls those binary oppositions into question.It tries to present a more truthful picture of these two playwrights and their comedies through an examination of some of their works.It argues that some of those oppositions are stereotypes and should not be taken seriously by contemporary Shakespearean and Jonsonian scholars.

作者信息

序号	姓名	单位	发文数	被引次数	H指数	G指数
1	廖运刚	四川大学外国语学院	2	0	0.0	0.0