Jonson's Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780198183945 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 256 str.

Ian Donaldson

Opis

The playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. In this new collection of biographical, critical, and historical essays, Ian Donaldson challenges many long-held and recent assumptions about the nature of Jonson's personality and creative achievement, offering fresh readings of his life and art.

Recenzje

Jonson's Magic Houses is more unified and successful than most collections of its sort ... The book makes a needed statement about Jonson, perhaps the most undervalued of the major authors of his time. It also offers a cogent brief for a cautionary approach to issues of topicality and biography relating to the early modern era. Elegantly written and gracefully argued, Donaldson's essays bode well for his forthcoming biography of Jonson.