..., the original conventions mark the English epitaph throughout the period of Scodel’s focus, from Jonson to Wordsworth. Indeed, the chief strength of this study is its recognition of the exact nature and forms of such intersections between genre and moment. Start- ing with his awareness of the social...

...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...

..., Donne, Jonson, A4ar~~ell.By ANNEFERRY. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Uni- versity Press, 1975. 287 pp. $1 1.50. Anne Ferry has done more in her new book than write a series of essays on the ‘love poetry of Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Nfarvell,” as its subtitle announces...

...W. David Kay John Gordon Sweeney, III. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. xi + 243 pp. $25.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 W. DAVID KAY 459 Jonson and the Psychology of Public Theater: To Coin the Spirit...

... 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...

.... DANIELG. CALUER University of California, Los Angeles The Politics of Mirth: Jonson, Herrick, Milton, Manlell, and the Defense of Old Holiday Pnstinzes. By LEAHS. MARCUS.Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. ix + 319 pp. $29.00. The Politics of Mirth...

... by the roots and abolish all cakes and ale? Not at all. They were written by Ben Joiison (Chambers, Elizabethan Stage, IV, 249). H ALLE~TSM ~TH Huntington Library The Heirs of Donne and Jonson. By JOSEPH H. SUMMERS.New York...

...) or morem senurn observat, qui de praeteritis libenter solent meminisse (on Iliad IX. 421) ? FRANKW. JONES University of Washington Jonson and the Comic Truth. By JOHN J. ENCK.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1957. Pp. viii...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

....” 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...

...Eugene M. Waith Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 THE POET’S MORALS IN JONSON’S POETASTER By EUGENEM. WAITH The parting of Ovid and Julia in Jonson’s Poetaster is a perplexing scene. The poet has been banished by Caesar for his impious...

...W. J. Olive Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 A CHAUCER ALLUSION IN JONSON’S BARTHOLOMEW FAIR By W. J. OLIVE In ‘Ihe Mugrtetic Lady Jonson has an allusion to Chaucer’s Doctor of Physic which has been recognized by Birck...

...L. A. Beaurline Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 1 Anne Barton. Ben Jonson, Dramatist . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xiv + 370 pp. $54.50, cloth; $17.95, paper. Katharine Eisaman Maus. Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind . Princeton...

... comedies of Jonson, Marston, and Middleton are exercises in naive photographic realism; just as most paintings owe more to other paintings than to life, so these plays owe more to other plays and lir- erary works than to the facts of early Jacobean social and economic 1ife.l In line...

...P. H. Davison Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 YOLPONE AND THE OLD COMEDY By P. H. DAVISON Although Jonson called filpone “quick commdie, refined this description has not satisfied critics puzzled by the precise nature...

... to a fruitful investi- gation of its forms and techniques in the light of Aristophanes, Roman New Comedy, I talian Renaissance drama, and classical and Renaissance nondramatic satire.I One consideration which has been somewhat neg- lected, however, is Jonson’s relationship to the late morality play...

...C. B. Graham Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1947 THE JONSONIAN TRADITION IN THE COMEDIES OF THOMAS D’URFEY By C. B. GRAHAM It is a matter of common knowledge among scholars that the comedy of humours popularized by Ben Jonson...