Ben Jonson And The Roman Frame Of Mind

Author : Katharine Eisaman Maus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781400854868

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Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind by Katharine Eisaman Maus Pdf

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 : Katharine Eisaman Maus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783767676

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Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind by Katharine Eisaman Maus Pdf

Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838753019

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Habits of Mind by Robert C. Evans Pdf

"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 : Victoria Moul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139485791

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Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition by Victoria Moul Pdf

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 : J. Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230389441

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Ben Jonson’s Theatrical Republics by J. Sanders Pdf

This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.

Author : Ernest B. Gilman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226294117

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Plague Writing in Early Modern England by Ernest B. Gilman Pdf

During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide range of responses to these epidemics—sermons, medical tracts, pious exhortations, satirical pamphlets, and political commentary—Plague Writing in Early Modern England brings to life the many and complex ways Londoners made sense of such unspeakable devastation. Ernest B. Gilman argues that the plague writing of the period attempted unsuccessfully to rationalize the catastrophic and that its failure to account for the plague as an instrument of divine justice fundamentally threatened the core of Christian belief. Gilman also trains his critical eye on the works of Jonson, Donne, Pepys, and Defoe, which, he posits, can be more fully understood when put into the context of this century-long project to “write out” the plague. Ultimately, Plague Writing in Early Modern England is more than a compendium of artifacts of a bygone era; it holds up a distant mirror to reflect our own condition in the age of AIDS, super viruses, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and the hovering threat of a global flu pandemic.

Author : A. D. Cousins,Alison V. Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513784

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Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre by A. D. Cousins,Alison V. Scott Pdf

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 : Rebecca M. Rush
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691215686

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The Fetters of Rhyme by Rebecca M. Rush Pdf

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portraying himself as a revolutionary freeing English verse from “the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming.” Despite his claim to be a pioneer, Milton was not initiating a new line of thought—English poets had been debating about rhyme and its connections to liberty, freedom, and constraint since Queen Elizabeth’s reign. The Fetters of Rhyme traces this dynamic history of rhyme from the 1590s through the 1670s. Rebecca Rush uncovers the surprising associations early modern readers attached to rhyming forms like couplets and sonnets, and she shows how reading poetic form from a historical perspective yields fresh insights into verse’s complexities. Rush explores how early modern poets imagined rhyme as a band or fetter, comparing it to the bonds linking individuals to political, social, and religious communities. She considers how Edmund Spenser’s sonnet rhymes stood as emblems of voluntary confinement, how John Donne’s revival of the Chaucerian couplet signaled sexual and political radicalism, and how Ben Jonson’s verse charted a middle way between licentious Elizabethan couplet poets and slavish sonneteers. Rush then looks at why the royalist poets embraced the prerational charms of rhyme, and how Milton spent his career reckoning with rhyme’s allures. Examining a poetic feature that sits between sound and sense, liberty and measure, The Fetters of Rhyme elucidates early modern efforts to negotiate these forces in verse making and reading.

Author : Richard Harp,Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521646782

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The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson by Richard Harp,Stanley Stewart Pdf

An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.

Author : Tom Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000798746

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Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson by Tom Harrison Pdf

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. It illuminates the interdependence of the aspects of Jonson’s creative personality by considering how classical performance elements, including the Aristophanic ‘Great Idea,’ chorus, Terentian/Plautine performative strategies, and ‘performative’ elements from literary satire, manifest themselves in the structuring and staging of his plays. This fascinating exploration contributes to the ‘performative turn’ in early modern studies by reframing Jonson’s classicism as essential to his dramaturgy as well as his erudition. The book is also a case study for how the early modern education system’s emphasis on imitative-contaminative practices prepared its students, many of whom became professional playwrights, for writing for a theatre that had a similar emphasis on recycling and recombining performative tropes and structures.

Author : Dennis Kezar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199753376

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Guilty Creatures by Dennis Kezar Pdf

In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.

Author : Julie Sanders,Kate Chedgzoy,Susan Wiseman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349267149

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Refashioning Ben Jonson by Julie Sanders,Kate Chedgzoy,Susan Wiseman Pdf

This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the process. It includes original essays by both established and emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist and queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to encourage new approaches by students to this central figure from the Renaissance.

Author : Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195349528

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Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship by Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University Pdf

In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.

Author : W. David Kay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349237784

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Ben Jonson by W. David Kay Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Cheney,Philip Hardie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191077784

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The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature by Patrick Cheney,Philip Hardie Pdf

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This second volume, and third to appear in the series, covers the years 1558-1660, and explores the reception of the ancient genres and authors in English Renaissance literature, engaging with the major, and many of the minor, writers of the period, including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson. Separate chapters examine the Renaissance institutions and contexts which shape the reception of antiquity, and an annotated bibliography provides substantial material for further reading.