eBook Ben Jonson: A Life download
by Ian Donaldson

Author: Ian Donaldson
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (July 1, 2013)
Language: English
Pages: 512
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Rating: 4.6
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Category: Literature
Subcategory: History and Criticism
Ian Donaldson considers all the evidence at hand to reconstruct the life of Ben Jonson and the age, its politics, its .
Ian Donaldson considers all the evidence at hand to reconstruct the life of Ben Jonson and the age, its politics, its dangers, and its poetry, masques, and plays as Elizabeth I is in her last years and as James VI and I consolidates his authority. I have only started reading parts of Donaldson's book, but it appears mostly of high quality so far. It will have a place on my shelf right next to David Riggs's earlier Jonson biography, amongst my other books on Shakespeare and Elizabethan life and literature generally.
Ben Jonson was a big man. In his hungry early years as a bricklayer, soldier and actor he was tall and lean – a. .This turbulent comic genius strides splendidly through the pages of Ian Donaldson's exemplary new biography
Ben Jonson was a big man. In his hungry early years as a bricklayer, soldier and actor he was tall and lean – a "hollow-cheeked scrag", Thomas Dekker called him – but by middle age the celebrated playwright and poet had swelled to corpulence on the free dinners of patronage and gargantuan quantities of sweet Canary wine. This turbulent comic genius strides splendidly through the pages of Ian Donaldson's exemplary new biography.
бесплатно, без регистрации и без смс. Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets ofthe age, he had become - in fact if not in title - the first Poet Laureate in England.
His previous OUP books include The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding (1970), Ben Jonson: Selected Works (Oxford Authors, 1985), Jonson's Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation (OUP, 1997).
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours
Benjamin Jonson (c. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry.
Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Jonson to provide a vivid depiction of.
Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Jonson to provide a vivid depiction of his remarkable life. His previous OUP books include The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding (1970), Ben Jonson: Selected Works (Oxford Authors, 1985), Jonson's Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation (OUP, 1997).
Ben Jonson had supper with some of the conspirators in the Gunpowder plot (Bridgeman). This is almost the only piece of knowledge about Jonson that is omitted from Ian Donaldson’s authoritative. In 1618, Ben Jonson walked from London to Scotland for a bet. He was 46, and grossly overweight, so did not hurry, reaching Edinburgh in two months and 10 days. While there he met the Scottish poet William Drummond, who made notes on the great man’s conversation.
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