Ben Jonson: A Life
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Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of
the age, he had
Author: Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne)
Format: Paperback, 562 pages, 155mm x 233mm, 856 g
Published: 2013, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Literary
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Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of
the age, he had
Ben Jonson: A Life