Jonson, the Poetomachia, and the Reformation of Renaissance Satire: Purging Satire

ISBN-13: 9780367666613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Jay Simons

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This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric persona and style uniquely his own.

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Jay Simons received his PhD in English, with a specialty in British Renaissance literature, from Southern Illinois University in 2013. The same year, his article entitled "Stinging, Barking, Biting, Purging: Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair and the Debate on Satire in the Poetomachia" was published in the Ben Jonson Journal. He is currently an adjunct professor at Jefferson Community & Technical College.