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Article: Ben Jonson, Revisited. (Review Essay).(Critical Essay)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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The renaissance in Ben Jonson studies has been the reassessment of his late work sparked by Anne Barton's Ben Jonson, Dramatist, published in 1984. There has been comparatively little genuinely new work on Jonson's middle plays and some growing interest, but not enough, in his early satires. While several of the books published on Jonson in 1999 and 2000 emphasize in their titles that a profound redefinition of Jonson is underway and while Herford and the Simpsons' great Oxford edition of Jonson's works is under fire from some quarters, much of the work under review here consolidates, extends, and subtly qualifies the contributions of earlier scholars ...
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Article: Tom Lockwood. Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age.(Book ...
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...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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