Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind
Author | : Katharine Eisaman Maus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780783767673 |
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Author | : Katharine Eisaman Maus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780783767673 |
Author | : Katharine Eisaman Maus |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1400854865 |
Katharine Maus explores the biographical reasons for Jonson's preference for particular Latin authors; the effects of Roman moral and psychological paradigms on his methods of characterization and generic choices; the connection between his critical theory and artistic practice; and the impact of Roman social theory on his portrayal of communities and on his peculiar relationship with his audiences. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Victoria Moul |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139485792 |
The influence of the Roman poet Horace on Ben Jonson has often been acknowledged, but never fully explored. Discussing Jonson's Horatianism in detail, this study also places Jonson's densely intertextual relationship with Horace's Latin text within the broader context of his complex negotiations with a range of other 'rivals' to the Horatian model including Pindar, Seneca, Juvenal and Martial. The new reading of Jonson's classicism that emerges is one founded not upon static imitation, but rather a lively dialogue between competing models - an allusive mode that extends into the seventeenth-century reception of Jonson himself as a latter-day 'Horace'. In the course of this analysis, the book provides fresh readings of many of Jonson's best-known poems - including 'Inviting a Friend to Dinner' and 'To Penshurst' - as well as a new perspective on many lesser-known pieces, and a range of unpublished manuscript material.
Author | : Robert C. Evans |
Publisher | : Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780838753019 |
"In Habits of Mind, his fourth book on Ben Jonson, Robert C. Evans turns to the reading habits of one of the best-read and most-learned of all the great English poets and discovers that the impact of Jonson's reading on his own art was both immediate and strong." "Studying Jonson's markings can provide unique insights into his own thinking and creativity, Evans postulates, because the poet's reading was not a distraction, but central to his inspiration and artistic development." "The marked books that Evans discusses are a deliberately mixed lot, and the methods used in discussing them are also intentionally diverse. The chosen works represent differing periods, genres, styles, and thematic concerns, thus suggesting the impressive range of Jonson's interests as well as the continuities that seem to underlie them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : A. D. Cousins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2009-02-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521513782 |
This study considers how Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. Renowned scholars offer perspectives on many of Jonson's major works, and together they reassess his political life in Jacobean and Caroline Britain.
Author | : Richard Harp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2000-11-30 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521646789 |
An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
Author | : Julie Sanders |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2010-06-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521895715 |
This collection highlights exciting new areas of research related to Ben Jonson, including book history, social history and cultural geography.
Author | : Richard S. Peterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351928635 |
In the first edition of this now-classic text, Richard Peterson offered an important revaluation of the poetry of Ben Jonson and a new appreciation of the way in which the classical doctrine of imitation-the creative use of the thoughts and words of predecessors-permeates and shapes Jonson's critical ideas and his work as a whole. The publication of the original book in 1981 led to a reinterpretation of the poems and a coherent view of Jonson's philosophy; the resulting portrait of Jonson served as a corrective to earlier views based primarily on the satiric poems and plays. This second edition of Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson makes Peterson's important scholarship available to a new generation of scholars and students.
Author | : Daniel Cadman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317052110 |
Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ’closet drama’, during the years 1590-1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group. Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks. In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, this book addresses several gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.
Author | : Jay Simons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 042988897X |
Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric persona and style uniquely his own. These pressures were especially intense while Jonson was engaged in the Poetomachia, or Poets’ War (1598-1601), which pitted him against rival writers John Marston and Thomas Dekker. As a struggle between satiric styles, this conflict poses compelling questions about the nature and potential of satire during the Renaissance. In particular, this book explores how Jonson forged a moderate Horatian satiric style he championed as capable of effective social reform. As part of his distinctive model, Jonson turned to the metaphor of purging, in opposition to the metaphors of stinging, barking, biting, and whipping employed by his Juvenalian rivals. By integrating this conception of satire into his Horatian poetics, Jonson sought to avoid the pitfalls of the aggressive, violent style of his rivals while still effectively critiquing vice, upholding his model as a means for the reformation not only of society, but of satire itself.