Critical essays on Ben Jonson / edited by Robert N. Watson.

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Book
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English
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New York : G.K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1997.
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xv, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Critical essays on British literature [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introducing Ben Jonson / Robert N. Watson
    • Prologue to Ben Jonson: a life / David Riggs
    • [from] Conversations (1619) / William Drummond
    • An invective wrighten...against Mr. Ben Jonson (1623 or later) / George Chapman
    • Odious tandem / Russ McDonald
    • [from the preface to] The Dutch Lover (1673) / Aphra Behn
    • [from] "A general prologue to all my place" (1662) / Margaret Cavendish
    • [from] The history of the worthies of english (1662) / Thomas Fuller
    • [from] Theatrum poetarum (1675) / Edward Phillips
    • [from the preface to] The works of Shakespeare (1725-1726) / Alexander Pope
    • Catiline / Anne Barton
    • To his worthy friend Mr. Ben Jonson (1611) / John Fletcher
    • [preface to] Sejanus (1605) / Ben Jonson
    • [from] A short view of tragedy (1692) / Thomas Rymer
    • "He may be our father, perhaps": paternity, puppets, boys, and Bartholomew Fair / Kristen McDermott
    • [from] The reformer (1748) / Edmund Burke
    • Impotence and the satirist's vocation / Katherine E. Maus
    • Examen of The Silent Woman (1667-1668) / John Dryden
    • Every man in his humor: the comedy of non-interaction / Gabriele Bernhard Jackson
    • [from] "Upon the report of the printing of the dramatical poems of Master John Fletcher" (1647) / William Cartwright
    • [from the preface to] The Humorists (1671) / Thomas Shadwell
    • [from the epilogue to] The Humorists (1691) / Thomas Shadwell
    • [from] Letters upon several occations (1696) / William Congreve
    • [from] Dramatic miscellanies (1783-1784) / Thomas Davies
    • Old Ben's New Inn / Robert N. Watson
    • Ode to himself (1629) / Ben Jonson
    • The country's censure on Ben Jonson's New Inn (1631) / Anonymous
    • To Ben Jonson. Upon occation of his ode of defiance annext to his play of the new Inne (1640) / Thomas Carew
    • [from] "A session of the poets" (1646) / John Suckling
    • To Benjaminum Jonsonium (1601)
    • [prologue to] The sad shepard (1640-1641) / Ben Jonson
    • The false ending in Volpone / Stephen J. Greenblatt
    • [from] Letter upon several occations (1696) / John Dennis
    • [from] The tatler (1709) / Richard Steele
    • The Jonsonian corpulence, or the poet as mouthpiece / Joseph Loewenstein
    • From the 1616 folio of Jonson's Works / Francis Beaumont
    • Ben Jonson and the modality of verse / John Hollander
    • "Scribimus indocti doctique epigrammata passim" (1615-1616) / Anonymous
    • [from] Miscellanies, or Essaies (1673) / Edward Howard
    • Sexual politics and cultural identity in The Masque of Blackness / Kim F. Hall
    • On Hymenaei (1616) / Ben Jonson.
    ISBN
    • 0783800436 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780783800431 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    97028769
    OCLC
    37331633
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