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- catalog abstract "This collection of original essays illustrates the diversity of current scholarly approaches to Ben Jonson. In the opening essay, Jennifer Brady explores the complex position on literary influence that Jonson arrived at in his late prose work Discoveries. Anne Lake Prescott analyzes Jonson's use of Rabelais in his own works as well as Jonson's handwritten annotations in a copy of Rabelais's 1599 Oeuvres and shows that Jonson's Rabelais is not simply "Rabelaisian" in the usual modern sense. By documenting Jonson's debt to the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius, Robert C. Evans illustrates the complex ways in which classical influence was mediated by humanist scholarship. George A.E. Parfitt demonstrates that, although Jonson's career was dominated by the effort to articulate enduring moral positives, these positives are constantly threatened, in his work, by Jonson's acute awareness of human frailty. James Hirsh argues that Volpone depicts a world so thoroughly foolish that a writer's attempt to cure foolishness would be futile and therefore foolish itself. Alexander Leggatt revisits the issue of the double plot in Volpone and finds that an emphasis on simple thematic parallels between the two plots distorts the dramatic significance of their relationship. As Kate D. Levin shows, conventional critical approaches have obscured both the structural peculiarities that Jonson's plays share with his masques and his occasional disregard of playhouse pragmatism. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett discusses aspects of Jacobean court politics that bear on Jonson's masque Pleasure Reconcild to Vertue. Bruce Thomas Boehrer places in the context of social history Jonson's long epigram "On the Famous Voyage," a mock-epic account of a journey through the waste-disposal system of London. Frances Teague challenges the common assumption that Jonson's later plays were failures. Ian Donaldson explores the interrelationships between the reputations of Shakespeare and Jonson.".
- catalog contributor b10360618.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "(cont.) The ordure of things : Ben Jonson, Sir bJohn Harington and the culture of excrement in early modern England / Bruce Thomas Boehrer -- "Not of an age" : Jonson, Shakespeare and the verdicts of posterity / Ian Donaldson.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : Jonsonian voices / James Hirsh -- Progenitors and other sons in Ben Jonson's Discoveries / Jennifer Brady -- Jonson's Rabelais / Anne Lake Prescott -- Jonson, Lipsius, and the Latin classics / Robert C. Evans -- Ethics and Christianity in Ben Jonson / George A. E. Parfitt -- Volpone : the double plot revisited / Alexander Leggatt -- Cynicism and the futility of art in Volpone / James Hirsh -- Unmasquing Epicoene : Jonson's dramaturgy for the commercial theater and court / Kate D. Levin -- Pleasure Reconcild to Vertue in historical context / Carol P. Marsh-Lockett -- The mythical failures of Jonson / Frances Teague --".
- catalog description "This collection of original essays illustrates the diversity of current scholarly approaches to Ben Jonson. In the opening essay, Jennifer Brady explores the complex position on literary influence that Jonson arrived at in his late prose work Discoveries. Anne Lake Prescott analyzes Jonson's use of Rabelais in his own works as well as Jonson's handwritten annotations in a copy of Rabelais's 1599 Oeuvres and shows that Jonson's Rabelais is not simply "Rabelaisian" in the usual modern sense. By documenting Jonson's debt to the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius, Robert C. Evans illustrates the complex ways in which classical influence was mediated by humanist scholarship. George A.E. Parfitt demonstrates that, although Jonson's career was dominated by the effort to articulate enduring moral positives, these positives are constantly threatened, in his work, by Jonson's acute awareness of human frailty. James Hirsh argues that Volpone depicts a world so thoroughly foolish that a writer's attempt to cure foolishness would be futile and therefore foolish itself. Alexander Leggatt revisits the issue of the double plot in Volpone and finds that an emphasis on simple thematic parallels between the two plots distorts the dramatic significance of their relationship. As Kate D. Levin shows, conventional critical approaches have obscured both the structural peculiarities that Jonson's plays share with his masques and his occasional disregard of playhouse pragmatism. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett discusses aspects of Jacobean court politics that bear on Jonson's masque Pleasure Reconcild to Vertue. Bruce Thomas Boehrer places in the context of social history Jonson's long epigram "On the Famous Voyage," a mock-epic account of a journey through the waste-disposal system of London. Frances Teague challenges the common assumption that Jonson's later plays were failures. Ian Donaldson explores the interrelationships between the reputations of Shakespeare and Jonson.".
- catalog extent "221 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "New perspectives on Ben Jonson.".
- catalog identifier "083863687X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "New perspectives on Ben Jonson.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "New perspectives on Ben Jonson.".
- catalog subject "822/.3 20".
- catalog subject "Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR2638 .N48 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) The ordure of things : Ben Jonson, Sir bJohn Harington and the culture of excrement in early modern England / Bruce Thomas Boehrer -- "Not of an age" : Jonson, Shakespeare and the verdicts of posterity / Ian Donaldson.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : Jonsonian voices / James Hirsh -- Progenitors and other sons in Ben Jonson's Discoveries / Jennifer Brady -- Jonson's Rabelais / Anne Lake Prescott -- Jonson, Lipsius, and the Latin classics / Robert C. Evans -- Ethics and Christianity in Ben Jonson / George A. E. Parfitt -- Volpone : the double plot revisited / Alexander Leggatt -- Cynicism and the futility of art in Volpone / James Hirsh -- Unmasquing Epicoene : Jonson's dramaturgy for the commercial theater and court / Kate D. Levin -- Pleasure Reconcild to Vertue in historical context / Carol P. Marsh-Lockett -- The mythical failures of Jonson / Frances Teague --".
- catalog title "New perspectives on Ben Jonson / edited by James Hirsh.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".