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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2006
      30 November 2000
      ISBN:
      9781139000154
      9780521641135
      9780521646789
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521641136
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.392kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British Theatre, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British Theatre, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became the most visible poet of his age, honored more than even William Shakespeare, and his dramatic works, in particular his major comedies, continue to be performed today. This Companion brings together leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to provide an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Jonson's life and works. It represents an invaluable guide to current critical perspectives, providing generous coverage not only of his plays but also his non-dramatic works. The volume is informed by the latest development in Jonson scholarship and will therefore appeal to scholars and teachers as well as newcomers to his work.

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    ‘This well-balanced and enthusiastic collection of essays assembles a distinguished gaggle of critics, and delivers a thorough, reasonable introduction to the first Englishman to earn his living as a writer.’

    Source: Plays International

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