Author: Ben Jonson
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1040

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Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781343765092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: Rosalind Miles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351997939
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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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.

Author: Ben Jonson
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Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 0

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Author: Richard Harp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646789
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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

Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521292481
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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A volume containing three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays: Sejanus, Volpone and Epicoene.

Author: David Riggs
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674255879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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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.

Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Ben Jonson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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