Ben Jonson A Literary Life

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 1995
Series:
Literary Lives
Author:
W. David Kay
ISBN:
9781349237784
Related ISBNs:
9780333464465
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2021-02-17
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1995
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Literature and Fiction