Ben Jonson
A Literary Life
W. David Kay(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 1994
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-333-46446-5 (ISBN)
Description
This concise biography surveys Jonson's career and provides an introduction to his works in the context of Jacobean politics, court patronage and his many literary rivalries. Stressing his wit and inventiveness, it explores the strategies by which he attempted to maintain his independence from the conditions of theatrical production and from his patrons and introduces new evidence that, despite his vaunted classicism, he repeatedly appropriated the matter or forms of other English writers in order to demonstrate his own artistic superiority.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
further reading, notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46446-5 (9780333464465)
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Fathers - The Actor-Playwright - The Emerging Classicist - Comical Satire and the War of the Theatres - Matters of State - Learned Inventions - Jonson and London Life - The Poet and His Patrons - The King's Poet - The Beleaguered Muse - Epilogue: Sons - Suggestions for Further Reading - Notes - Index