Jonson's Magic Houses
Essays in Interpretation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 February 1997
- ISBN 9780198183945
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 225x145x19 mm
- Weight 424 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. In this new collection of biographical, critical, and historical essays, Ian Donaldson challenges many long-held and recent assumptions about the nature of Jonson's personality and creative achievement, offering fresh readings of his life and art.
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Ben Jonson was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, his reputation had sharply declined: while Shakespeare was increasingly venerated as a type of original genius, Jonson was contrastingly seen as a writer of patchy and derivative talents, excessively devoted to the authors of antiquity and to the social minutiae of his age, anxiously resentful of his great and 'gentle' rival. This popular, formalized contrast of the two men's characters and abilities profoundly affected the subsequent reputations of both Shakespeare and Jonson. In this new collection of biographical, critical and historical essays, Ian Donaldson challenges many long-held and recent assumptions about the nature of Jonson's personality and creative achievement, offering fresh readings of his life and art.
Jonson's Magic Houses is more unified and successful than most collections of its sort ... The book makes a needed statement about Jonson, perhaps the most undervalued of the major authors of his time. It also offers a cogent brief for a cautionary approach to issues of topicality and biography relating to the early modern era. Elegantly written and gracefully argued, Donaldson's essays bode well for his forthcoming biography of Jonson.
