Ben Jonson And Posterity

Author : Martin Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110890663X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson and Posterity written by Martin Butler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ian Donaldson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191636797
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Ian Donaldson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of the age, he had become - in fact if not in title - the first Poet Laureate in England. Jonson's life was full of drama. Serving in the Low Countries as a young man, he overcame a Spanish adversary in single combat in full view of both the armies. His early satirical play, The Isle of Dogs, landed him in prison, and brought all theatrical activity in London to a temporary — and very nearly to a permanent — standstill. He was 'almost at the gallows' for killing a fellow actor after a quarrel, and converted to Catholicism while awaiting execution. He supped with the Gunpowder conspirators on the eve of their planned coup at Westminster. After satirizing the Scots in Eastward Ho! he was imprisoned again; and throughout his career was repeatedly interrogated about plays and poems thought to contain seditious or slanderous material. In his middle years, twenty stone in weight, he walked to Scotland and back, seemingly partly to fulfil a wager, and partly to see the land of his forebears. He travelled in Europe as tutor to the mischievous son of Sir Walter Ralegh, who 'caused him to be drunken and dead drunk' and wheeled provocatively through the streets of Paris. During his later years he presided over a sociable club in the Apollo Room in Fleet Street, mixed with the most learned scholars of his day, and viewed with keen interest the political, religious, and scientific controversies of the day. Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Ben Jonson, and locates his work within the social and intellectual contexts of his time. Jonson emerges from this study as a more complex and volatile character than his own self-declarations (and much modern scholarship) would allow, and as a writer whose work strikingly foresees - and at times pre-emptively satirizes - the modern age.

Author : Lynn S. Meskill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517435
Total Pages : 243 pages
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Download or read book Ben Jonson and Envy written by Lynn S. Meskill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the centrality of envy in the works of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's greatest literary rival.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timber written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemist written by Ben Jonson and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First performed in 1610, The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson’s greatest comedies. Written for the King’s Men—the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged—it was first performed in Oxford because the playhouses in London were closed due to the plague. It was an immediate success and has remained a popular staple ever since. The play centers around a con man, his female accomplice, and a roguish butler who uses his master’s house to gull a series of victims out of their money and goods. Jonson uses the play to satirize as many people as he can—pompous lords, greedy commoners, and self-righteous Anabaptists alike—as his three con artists proceed to bilk everyone who comes to their door. They don multiple roles and weave elaborate tales to exploit their victims’ greed and amass a small fortune. But it all comes to a sudden, raucous end when the master unexpectedly returns to London and all the victims gather to try and reclaim their property.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
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Download or read book Ben Jonson: Bartholomew Fair. Cynthia's revels; or, The fountain of self-love. Sejanus, his fall written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Douglas Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.ED/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by Douglas Editions. This book was released on 1838 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D.H. Craig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134783051
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson written by D.H. Craig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plays and Poems of Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: