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Ben Jonson

A Literary Life

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. W. David Kay

    1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Fathers

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Actor-Playwright

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 12-26

  4. The Emerging Classicist

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 27-42

  5. Comical Satire and the War of the Theatres

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 43-62

  6. Matters of State

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 63-77

  7. Learned Inventions

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 78-93

  8. Jonson and London Life

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 94-113

  9. The Poet and His Patrons

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 114-135

  10. The King’s Poet

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 136-159

  11. The Beleaguered Muse

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 160-183

  12. Epilogue: Sons

    • W. David Kay
    Pages 184-189

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 190-237
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About this book

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.

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  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

    W. David Kay

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