Ben Jonson Of Westminster
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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In the teeming, raucous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, few figures burned as brightly — or as dangerously — as Ben Jonson, the bricklayer's stepson who clawed his way to the very pinnacle of English letters. Marchette Chute's Ben Jonson of Westminster chronicles the turbulent life of this brilliant, combative poet and playwright, from his hardscrabble Westminster origins through his celebrated rivalries, his imprisonment, his wars of wit, and his ultimate triumph as the undisputed master of English comedy and the first poet laureate of the realm. Chute brings to bear the same meticulous scholarship and warmly accessible prose that distinguished her earlier triumph, Shakespeare of London, reconstructing Jonson's world with vivid, authoritative detail — the bear-baiting yards, the taverns, the court masques, the Globe itself. She presents Jonson not as a dusty literary monument but as a flesh-and-blood colossus: vain, generous, learned, and endlessly quarrelsome, a man whose hunger for classical perfection was matched only by his very human appetites. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly meant to be a writer in the age of Shakespeare, this biography offers an answer both thrilling and sobering.
Author: Marchette Chute
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the teeming, raucous world of Elizabethan and Jacobean London, few figures burned as brightly — or as dangerously — as Ben Jonson, the bricklayer's stepson who clawed his way to the very pinnacle of English letters. Marchette Chute's Ben Jonson of Westminster chronicles the turbulent life of this brilliant, combative poet and playwright, from his hardscrabble Westminster origins through his celebrated rivalries, his imprisonment, his wars of wit, and his ultimate triumph as the undisputed master of English comedy and the first poet laureate of the realm. Chute brings to bear the same meticulous scholarship and warmly accessible prose that distinguished her earlier triumph, Shakespeare of London, reconstructing Jonson's world with vivid, authoritative detail — the bear-baiting yards, the taverns, the court masques, the Globe itself. She presents Jonson not as a dusty literary monument but as a flesh-and-blood colossus: vain, generous, learned, and endlessly quarrelsome, a man whose hunger for classical perfection was matched only by his very human appetites. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly meant to be a writer in the age of Shakespeare, this biography offers an answer both thrilling and sobering.