{"product_id":"the-self-centred-art-jakub-boguszak-9780367515621","title":"The Self-Centred Art: Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Self-Centred Art\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJakub 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jakub Boguszak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367515628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367515621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Jakub Boguszak","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48112884908287,"sku":"9780367515621","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9fc7ffc7-457a-4879-98ff-bea13399c594.jpg?v=1769611599","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-self-centred-art-jakub-boguszak-9780367515621","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}