[ebooks] Try A Different Pose by David M. Renka in Arts-Photography

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A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lordThis excellent comedy of affliction enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy in any language. Its title signals Jonsons satiric and complex concern with gender: the play asks not only what should a man do?; but how should men and women behave; both as fit examples of their sex; and to one another? The characters furnish a cross-section of wrong answers; enabling Jonson to create riotous entertainment out of lack; loss and disharmony; to the point of denying the straightfowardly festive conclusion which audiences at comedies normally expect. Much of the comic vitality arises from a degeneration of language; which Jonson called the instrument of society; into empty chatter or furious abuse; and from a plot which is a series of lies and betrayals (the hero lies to everyone and Jonson lies to the audience). The central figure is a man named Morose; who hates noise yet lives in the centre of London; and who; because of his decision to marry a woman he supposes to be silent; exposes himself to a fantastic cacophony of voices; male; female and - epicene.This student edition contains a lengthy Introduction with background on the author; date and sources; theme; critical interpretation and stage history.