Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781351997935
ISBN-13 : 1351997939
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Synopsis Ben Jonson by : Rosalind Miles

The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light. Critics traditionally exalted Shakespeare, at Jonson’s expense. In this biography, first published in 1986, the author presents a full and accurate account of Jonson’s life in modern times. Rosalind Miles follows Jonson from his obscure beginnings to his burial in Westminster Abbey, as the first Poet Laureate, in 1637. Her Jonson is vivid and vigorous, equally alive in his life and in his work. This title will be of interest to students of history, English literature and Renaissance drama.

Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship

Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0521812178
ISBN-13 : 9780521812177
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship by : Joseph Loewenstein

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A Study of Ben Jonson

A Study of Ben Jonson
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Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015009287106
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Synopsis A Study of Ben Jonson by : Algernon Charles Swinburne

A critical study of the noted writer & contemporary of Shakespeare, by the eminent Victorian critic.

A Study of Ben Jonson

A Study of Ben Jonson
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Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4109943
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Synopsis A Study of Ben Jonson by : Algernon Charles Swinburne

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 0521646782
ISBN-13 : 9780521646789
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson by : Richard Harp

An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.

Every Man in His Humour

Every Man in His Humour
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Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWPSQB
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Synopsis Every Man in His Humour by : Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson and Posterity

Ben Jonson and Posterity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781108906630
ISBN-13 : 110890663X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Ben Jonson and Posterity by : Martin Butler

Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.

The Poems of Ben Jonson

The Poems of Ben Jonson
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 1254
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ISBN-10 : 9781317445210
ISBN-13 : 131744521X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poems of Ben Jonson by : Tom Cain

Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Penshurst’ and his moving elegy ‘On my First Son’, his work inspired the whole generation of seventeenth-century poets who declared themselves the ‘Sons of Ben’. This edition brings his three major verse publications, Epigrams (1616), The Forest (1616), and Underwood (1641) together with his large body of uncollected poems to create the largest collection of Jonson’s verse that has been published. It thus gives readers a comprehensive view of the wide range of his achievement, from satirical epigrams through graceful lyrics to tender epitaphs. Though he is often seen as the preeminent English poet of the plain style, Jonson employed a wealth of topical and classical allusion and a compressed syntax which mean his poetry can require as much annotation for the modern reader as that of his friend John Donne. This edition not only provides comprehensive explanation and contextualization aimed at student and non-specialist readers alike, but presents the poems in a modern spelling and punctuation that brings Jonson’s poetry to life.

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780674255876
ISBN-13 : 0674255879
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Ben Jonson by : David Riggs

Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the “great refiner” who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant images of folly and deceit. He was also a celebrated reprobate and an ambitious entrepreneur. David Riggs illuminates every facet of this extraordinary career, giving us the first major biography of Jonson in over sixty years. The story of Jonson's life provides a broad view of the literary procession in early modern England and the milieu in which Elizabethan drama was produced. Beginning as a journeyman actor, Jonson was soon a novice playwright; his first important play was staged in 1598, with Shakespeare in the cast. He was by turns the self-styled leader of a literary elite, a writer of court masques, the first dramatist to publish his own Works, a royal pensioner, and a genteel poet. As Jonson transformed himself from an artisan into a gentleman, his need to transcend his class origins led him to murder, to his notorious quarrels with Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and Inigo Jones, and to his lifelong rivalry with Shakespeare. Riggs traces the roots of Jonson's aggressiveness back to the turmoil of his childhood and adolescence. He offers new and convincing accounts of Jonson's latent hostility toward his bricklayer stepfather, his reckless marriage to Anne Lewis, and his conflicted relationships with his children. This vivid portrait synthesizes six decades of scholarship and new historical evidence. Sixty halftones beautifully illustrate the story and capture the spirit of the age. With Riggs' original interpretations of Jonson's masterpieces and lesser known works, Ben Jonson: A Life will prove the standard account of this complex man's life and works for many years to come.