.... ERNESTWILLIAM TALBERT University of North Carolina The Sons of Ben: Jonsonian Comedy in Caroline England. By JOE LEE DAVIS.Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967. 252 pp. $8.95. The Sons of Ben-the minor Caroline comic dramatist+who reads them? To put the question more...

... University of Cincinnati Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy. By JONAS A. BARISH.Cam- bridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. xii + 335. $5.00. Jonas A. Barish’s book has usefulness beyond the field of Jonson studies. It defines a mode of which Jonson was unquestionably...

....” WALTERR. DAVIS University of Notre Dame Ben Jonson’s “Dotages”: A Reconsideration of the Late Plays. By LARRY S. CHAMPION.Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 156 pp. $6.50. In this useful, short book Larry Champion asserts that Jonson’s late plays are not different...

... the need to support the complex fictions of the author by the spurious concretenesses of historical fiction. G. K. HUNTER University of Warwick Vision and Judgment in Ben JonsonS Drama. By GABRIELEBERNHARD JACKSON.New...

...Jennifer Brady Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Collaborating with the Forebear: Dryden’s Reception of Ben Jonson Jennifer Brady Gramercie, good HORACE. Nay, we are new turn’d Poet too, which is more; and a Satyrist too, which is more then that: I write...

... University Ben Jomon: His Life and Work. By ROSALINDMILES. London and New York: Routledge 8c Kegan Paul, 1986. xiv + 306 pp. $55.00. We have long needed a biography of Ben Jonson that would gather into a coherent whole the wealth of information inconveniently scattered through the eleven...

...W. DAVID KAY Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 1 ALEXANDER LEGGATT. Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art. London and New York: Methuen, 1981. xvi + 300 pp. $35.00. CLASSICISM AND COMPLEXITY IN BEN JONSON’S ART1 By W...

... as a Dramatic Language in Ben Jonsott. By ALEXANDERH. SACKTON. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948. Pp. xii -I- 182. $2.50. In the first part of Mr. Sackton’s book, where he sketches his background of rhetoric in the Renaissance tradition and in plays by dramatists other than Jonson...

...Ben F. Stoltzfus Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 UNANIMISM REVISITED By BEN F. STOLTZFUS Unanimism, as one of the most significant and interesting literary schools at the turn of the twentieth-century, dates back to an evening...

...Ben Drake Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 1 A. L. Clements. The Mystical Poetry of Thomas Traherne . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969. x + 232 pp. $7.00. THOMAS TRAHERNE’S SONGS OF INNOCENCE’ By BENDRAKE...

...Ben Glaser Ben Glaser is assistant professor of English at Yale University. His work has appeared in Victorian Poetry and is forthcoming in PMLA and Papers in Language and Literature . His current book project, Modernism’s Metronome , studies modern poetry’s historical prosody...

...Ben Parker Abstract The production of abstract value—not limited to the transformation of labor under the exigencies of capitalism but extending to modes of signification undermined by abstract equivalence—plays an unprecedented yet overlooked role in the major novels of Thomas Hardy: unprecedented...

...Ben Etherington Abstract This essay revisits critical-humanist approaches to literary totality that have largely been sidelined during the recent revival of world literature studies. While there has been no shortage of defenses of close reading in the face of distant reading and other positivist...

...Ben Drake Fletcher Angus. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1971. xiv + 261 pp. $10.00. Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 102 REVIEWS lation of two or more plots in drama of thesixteenth...

... Theodor Gomperz’s lectures on Aristotle’s Poet- ics, and he now uses Aristotle as a critical tool (see Prosa, I, 236). BEN JAMIN BENNETT 167 Hofmannsthal almost a century later. In 1897, as we have seen, Hof- mannsthal recognizes that in the very...