....” 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...

..., not a conclusion, and we have already been told that what Antony calls “nobleness” appears to others as “dotage” and “lust” (1.i. 1, 10). In King Lear, the prison is affirmed to be enough; in Antony and Cleoputra, we must judge whether “my space” is not too limited a prison. Nor is this the only...

....” 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...

... plots do not really move, that his last plays are “dotages,” and that his masques cater to the undiscriminating taste of the courtly audience. Some of these judgments may continue to stand; but perceptive readers have questioned all of them from time to time, and one would like to see them...

... is to be found in The Courtier‘s Academie, where a courtier says, “universally therefore wee will affirme that honour is the most precious of all goods externall.” Watson’s response is a valuable counter to Swinburne’s that “the dotage of York becomes lunacy”; yet both ignore the control which...

... basis for any final evaluation of his achievement. Con- centration upon it here has confirmed many of the traditional judgments against Jonson: that his characters are static, that his plots do not really move, that his last plays are “dotages,” and that his masques cater to the undiscriminating...

... says, “universally therefore wee will affirme that honour is the most precious of all goods externall.” Watson’s response is a valuable counter to Swinburne’s that “the dotage of York becomes lunacy”; yet both ignore the control which the play exercises over moral doctrine and intuitive...

.... Antony introjects the Roman attitude toward Cleopatra, feels guilt, and reverses the direction of his feelings: “These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, / Or lose myself in dotage” (I.ii.113-14). There is a differ- ence between seeing Antony’s behavior as “dual,” “disunited...

..., Kate Perugini, apparently held the same view, but she was in her dotage when she gave voice to it, and it is clear that she was by no means in a normal state of mind. Nor did Mrs. Perugini herself give the story to the world. She left it to be told after her death by her young friend...

.... Had she been coupled with some rough-hewn slave, Her language would have played upon his soul And charmed him to a dotage. If she had grieved, Like an idolator he would have gathered Her tears upon his knees for sacred relics. (P. 268.) Rut the king, despite...

... and Literature. Chicago: Univer- sity of Chicago Press, 1967. x + 261 pp. $6.95. Champion, Lany S. Ben Jonson’s “Dotages”: A Reconsideration of the Lute Plrys. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 156 pp. $6.50. Collins, Howard S. The Comedy of Sir William Davenant. The Hague and Paris...

...” wishes to marry Were it for hoolynesse or for dotage, 1253 I kan nat seye. He prays “oure Lord to graunten him . . . to lyve under that hooly boond,y’16for “mariage is a ful greet sacrement”;l‘ and it is for showing his “heigh sentence so holily and weel,”la...

... for whom virtue is imaginary, vice real; he pursues “invisible flies” and fights with “gnats and shadows.” It is not surprising, then, that his last words are: The truest wisdome silly men can have Is dotage, on the follies of their flesh. (IV, ix...

... ’Blackwood’sexpressed nostalgic regret. The shepherd in “Noctes Ambrosianae” says : She [the Scots] was indeed . . . an honest auld body, and till she got into the natural dotage that is the doom 0’ a’ flesh, she wasna wantin’ in smeddum, and could sing a sang, or tell a story, wi’ nae sma’ speerit...

... writers, so it cannot be dismissed as an old poet’s dotage. Indeed, it had political overtones. Late in James’s reign, Jonson’s learned friends Robert Cotton the antiquary and William Camden, then writing his Annales, came to see Queen Elizabeth as the reincar- nation of Caesar Augustus and her...

..., the Wife believes, is not hard to find : The clerk, whan he is oold, and may noght do Of Venus werkes worth his olde sho, Thanne sit he doun, and writ in his dotage That wommen kan nat kepe hir mariage!46 The Pardoner had been promised “ensamples...

... effects; he marked the transient splashes of fireworks against the dark, and fashioned designs of people against simplified backgrounds of subdued color. Second, he was opposed to what he called the art of “anec- dotage” because it insisted upon literalness in art.l He cared nothing...

... dotage to , change the course of his conversation. At the time that Proust’s work was in gestation, the experiments of Charcot and his group were firing the popular imagination as well as that of specialists ;18 semi-learned popularizations were ap- pearing in the Revue des Deux...

... in that period between the dotages and demise of Ben Jonson and the emergence of Restoration comedy in the theaters of Etherege and Wycherley (we may be reminded of the pertinent debate as to whether Manly was Wycherley or Wycherley came to be “Manly” in the image of his own creature). Her...

..., and follies of the wise? From Marlb’rough’s eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driv’ler and a show. (3 15- 18) The reader’s acceptance of sympathy is emphasized in the last ques- tion before the poem’s concluding great...