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

ISBN-13: 9781138603882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 174 str.

Jay Simons

Opis

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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Contents

 

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Jonson in the Age of Juvenal

1 Jonson and the Comedy of Humors

2 The Depths and Heights of Satire: Jacke Drum’s Entertainment and Cynthia’s Revels

3 The Scourge and the Purge: Satiromastix, Poetaster, and Satiric Ethos

4 "Thy wiser temper": Jonson’s Epigrams and the Whipper-Satirist

5 The Postscript of the Poetomachia: Bartholomew Fair

Index

O autorze

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.