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Ben Johnson in the Romantic Age (Oxford University Press, 2005) Lynn S. Meskill. Ben Jonson and Envy (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Rosalind Miles. Ben Jonson: His Craft and Art (Routledge, London 2017) Rosalind Miles. Ben Jonson: His Life and Work (Routledge, London 1986) George Parfitt. Ben Jonson: Public Poet and Private Man (J. M. Dent ...
On 22 September 1598, Spenser fought a duel with Ben Jonson on Hoxton fields. The cause of the duel is not known. According to Jonson's account, related many years later, Spenser had initiated the duel and had the advantage of a much longer sword. Spenser wounded Jonson in the arm, but Jonson managed to strike back, killing him.
Jonson utilised a variety of sources to write Epicœne. While most details of characterisation and plot are his own invention, the scenario originates from two orations by Libanius : in one, a groom in Morose's situation argues for permission to commit suicide to escape his marriage, while in the other an elderly miser plans to disinherit a ...
Sir John in Love is an opera in four acts by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.The libretto, by the composer himself, is based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and supplemented with texts by Philip Sidney, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher.
Why here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, I and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit." From the handwritten manuscript of The Return from Parnassus; Or the Scourge of Simony.
The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After. London and New York, Routledge, 1992. Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The New Intellectuals: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1977. Loxley, James. The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson.
Shaa and Spenser were released quickly, and even Jonson was out of jail by early in October. Pembroke's Men were in action again, as were the other companies, before winter of that year. The only party permanently hurt was the Swan's impresario Francis Langley, who alone among the play's producers was not able to obtain relicensing. Langley had ...
The main speaker is a satyr, yielding the alternative title, in dialogue with Queen Mab, and the cast includes fairies and elves – a blending of figures from both classical and native English folklore that Jonson would employ in future works, including The Fortunate Isles and Their Union of 1625.