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Article: Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2003
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Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. By MATHEW R. MARTIN. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 191 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-739-X.
As his introduction states, Martin's rather densely written monograph is not a study of the influence of the Pyrrhonist revival, but a deconstructive reading, supported by reference to Foucault, Bakhtin, Derrida, Edward Said, and J.L. Austin as well as to Plato, Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, and Wittgenstein, of Jonson's four major comedies and of Middleton's Michaelmas Term, A Trick to Catch the Old One, ...