1st Edition

Ben Jonson His Craft and Art

By Rosalind Miles Copyright 1990
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

Though he is one of the undisputed giants of English literature, Ben Jonson is known to most people only as the author of one or two masterly plays which regularly appear in the drama repertory. He is much less well-known for his whole oeuvre, which encompasses poetry, criticism, masque-making, and a lifetime of linguistic and lexicographical study. In this book, first published in 1990, the... Read more

Preface;  List of dates;  1. A mere empiric  2. Beginning his studies in this kind  3. To speak the vice  4. Sung high and aloof  5. Royal and magnificent entertainment  6. Quick comedy refined  7. To come forth worth the ivy, or the bays  8. The poet  9. All thy figures are allowed  10. Shows! Shows! Mighty Shows!  11. He prays you’ll not prejudge his play for ill  12. Near the close or shutting up of his circle; Epilogue;  Appendix;  Notes;  Select bibliography;  Index

Biography

Rosalind Miles