Ben Jonson
A Life. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Award 2012 Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2013
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 20 August 2013
- ISBN 9780199697472
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages562 pages
- Size 233x155x31 mm
- Weight 856 g
- Language English
- Illustrations w. numerous fig. 0
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Short description:
Soldier, satirist, duellist, principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, tutor to the son of Sir Walter Ralegh, and Shakespeare's greatest contemporary, Ben Jonson was a complex and volatile character. Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Jonson to provide a vivid depiction of his remarkable life.
MoreLong description:
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 of
the age, he had
Writing in a beautifully calibrated style, Donaldson brings Jonson to eloquent, rumbustious life. An especially impressive feature of the book is the way he positions him in the shifting world in which he lived. James Morwood
