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Article: Jonson vs. Jones in Prospero's Books.
- Article from:
- Literature-Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Throughout his career as a filmmaker, Peter Greenaway has railed against the dominance of narrative-based cinema. "Why do we have to have text before we can have image?" he has asked (Chua 177). His films consistently seek to draw attention to the conflict between the verbal and the visual that is commonly suppressed in more mainstream movies. As a filmmaker with an obvious interest in the seventeenth century, (1) Greenaway has naturally come to understand this conflict in terms of the famous quarrel between Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones, who collaborated in making masques for the Jacobean court. Undoubtedly, one of the things that drew him to The Tempest was the way in which ...