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Mathew R. Martin. Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton.(Book Review)
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. Pp. 191. $35.00.
Mathew Martin's book contextualizes recent critical concerns such as city comedy's representation of subjectivity and the effects of market forces by placing them within the context of Renaissance interest in philosophical skepticism. This approach seems eminently appropriate for examining early modern city comedy since the philosophy of skepticism is closely allied to the moral comedy of Jonson and Middleton. As the philosopher Sextus Empiricus explains, skepticism is "an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever" (14). Given city comedy's emphasis on the ...
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