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Article: Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night.(Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2000
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Stephen Booth. Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Xii + 218 pp. $35. ISBN: 0-520-21288-6.
By his own admission, Stephen Booth's new project of close reading brings together a group of "ill-sorted" texts (ix), including Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address and early modern works in disparate genres by Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. His critical introduction which, Booth announces, attentive readers can "profitably skip" (1) because it simply replicates the kind of readings offered in his book, explores the "buried nuggets of unreason" (11) in ...
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