The Poetaster

The Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Poetaster is a celebrated satirical comedy written by Ben Jonson that formed an important element in the infamous War of the Theatres of 1599–1601. Set in the court of Emperor Augustus, the central plot revolves around the conspiracy of the poetaster Crispinus and his friend Demetrius, and Pantilius Tucca, to slander Horace, who represented Jonson. The trial is then taken before Augustus, with Virgil as a judge. More than a dig at the two rivals, John Marston and Thomas Dekker, this play expressed Jonson's views on "the poet's moral duties in society."

The Poetaster

The Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Poetaster is a celebrated satirical comedy written by Ben Jonson that formed an important element in the infamous War of the Theatres of 1599–1601. Set in the court of Emperor Augustus, the central plot revolves around the conspiracy of the poetaster Crispinus and his friend Demetrius, and Pantilius Tucca, to slander Horace, who represented Jonson. The trial is then taken before Augustus, with Virgil as a judge. More than a dig at the two rivals, John Marston and Thomas Dekker, this play expressed Jonson's views on "the poet's moral duties in society."

The Poetaster, or His Arraignment

The Poetaster, or His Arraignment PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368340069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Reproduction of the original.

The Poetaster

The Poetaster PDF Author: Fikreslassie Yemane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment

Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198132295
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 582

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The plays featured have been edited from the earliest printed texts.

Every man out of his humour ; Cynthia's revels ; The poetaster

Every man out of his humour ; Cynthia's revels ; The poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Poetaster

Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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The Poetaster

The Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Pinnacle Press
ISBN: 9781375008983
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Poetaster

Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, Latin
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Poetaster

Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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The Poetaster

The Poetaster PDF Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781492711360
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade. As a youth he attracted the attention of the famous antiquary, William Camden, then usher at Westminster School, and there the poet laid the solid foundations of his classical learning. Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed,