Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Introd. Additions and corrections. The origin of the English drama. The beginnings of the English regular drama. Shakespere's predecessors. Shakspere. Ben Jonson
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Athenæum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare
Author: John CassonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445654679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 559
Book Description
Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Author: Michael DobsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198708734
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. It offers stimulating and authoritative coverage of every aspect of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and in film.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Alchemist
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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.
The Pall Mall Budget
Author: The Alchemist
Author: Ben JonsonBen Jonson and Posterity
Author: Martin ButlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890663X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.
Author: Ben Jonson