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Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford, blank‐verse dramatic monologue by
E.A. Robinson, published in
The Man Against the Sky (1916).
This witty, jovial, and incisive characterization of Shakespeare is presented in the words of his fellow poet, supposed to be drinking in a London tavern with a Stratford visitor. Describing him as “this mad, careful, proud, indifferent Shakespeare,” Jonson says that he is an incomparable genius, but solitary and passion‐consumed, “empowered out of nature” by lacking “faith, innocence, illusion, Whatever 'tis that keeps us out o' Bedlam,” and saved perhaps only by his thrift and ambition and “that House in Stratford.”
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Ben Jonson, Revisited. (Review Essay).(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...The renaissance in Ben Jonson studies has been the reassessment...late work sparked by Anne Barton's Ben Jonson, Dramatist, published in 1984...s collection, Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance...
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Jonson's Epigram 89, to Edward Alleyn.(Ben Jonson to Edward Alleyn )(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...give So many poet's life, by one should live. Ben Jonson's epigram for Edward Alleyn is generally accepted...PETER HYLAND, Huron University College WORKS CITED Jonson, Ben. Ben Jonson: The Complete Poems. Ed. George Parfitt. Harmondsworth...
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Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age. By Tom Lockwood...Shakespeare's envious antithesis, a friendly Jonson was left to wander quietly in the cultural margins. As Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age shows, the standard...
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Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance. Ed...seems only partly true. Although Jonson's publication practices are a revolutionary...theatrical pacing and performance in Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice...
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A PORTRAIT OF SELF-MADE BEN JONSON
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/14/1989; ; 700+ words
; BEN JONSON. A Life, by David Riggs. Harvard...class issues that beset him. Jonson managed his career more skillfully...Works," for example, turned Ben into the leading literary celebrity...and social study of playwright Ben Jonson.
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Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xii+257. $85.00. The conventional wisdom is that Ben Jonson had little cultural or poetic visibility during the Romantic period...
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Jonson's masque markets and problems of literary ownership.(Ben Jonson)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...have provided little consolation for Ben Jonson, who complained frequently of losing...gift economy into the marketplace, Jonson, whose society did not yet conceive...of art and as material objects--Jonson was able to market his work, particularly...
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Troping prostitution: Jonson and "The Court Pucell".(Ben Jonson)
Magazine article from: Nebula; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Sometime in 1609, Ben Jonson penned "An Epigram on the Court Pucell...Pucell then so censure me" [1]), Jonson proceeds to label Bulstrode a "Pucell...belonged." (3) This interpretation of Jonson's epigram as a slur on Cecilia Bulstrode...
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Jonson's Volpone and Dante.(Ben Jonson, Dante Alighieri )
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...one has linked Dante's Inferno to Ben Jonson's Volpone. But there are a number...s epic poem was influential on Jonson's most enduringly popular play...3) Again, both Dante's and Jonson's master works are called "comedies...
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A link between two Jonson poems.(Ben Jonson)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...is not difficult to think of Jonson opening "Tribe of Ben" with an allusion to "Execration...Execration" and "Tribe of Ben," supposing it exists. At the outset of "Tribe of Ben," Jonson vows to be cautious, because...
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Jonson, Ben
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ben Jonson Born: 1572 London, England Died: August...English writer, playwright, and poet Ben Jonson was an English playwright and poet best...through sixteenth centuries). Early career Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, England...
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Ben Jonson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ben Jonson The English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is best known for his satiric comedies...the greatest dramatic genius of the English Renaissance. Ben Jonson was probably born in or near London, about a month after...
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Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford, blank‐verse dramatic monologue...x201C;this mad, careful, proud, indifferent Shakespeare,” Jonson says that he is an incomparable genius, but solitary and passion‐...
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Jonson, Ben (1572–1637)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
JONSON, BEN (1572 – 1637) JONSON, BEN (1572 – 1637), English playwright and poet. A highly influential dramatist of Jacobean London and the court of his day, Jonson was a colorful character of early theater history...
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Jonson, Ben(jamin)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Jonson, Ben(jamin) (1572–1637), English...appeared in The Poetaster (1601), in which Jonson vented his spleen on several of his contemporaries...the authors to be sent to prison, where Jonson had already spent some time for his part...
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