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by Ian Donaldson (Author) "EARLY in 1638, six months after the death of Ben Jonson, a volume of verses to his memory was published in London under the editorship..." (more)
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"This book makes a needed statement about Jonson, perhaps the most undervalued of the major authors of his time....Elegantly written and gracefully argued."--Renaissance Quarterly
.,."[the essays in Jonson's Magic Houses] represent a fine mind considering a great writer over a period of years and from a number of original perspectives."--Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"Jonson's Magic House shows very convincingly that traditional scholarly methods can be integrated most successfully with more recent theoretical institutions about literary works and their context of production."--Studies in English Literature


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Ben Jonson was commonly regarded during his lifetime and the century following his death as a writer whose powers were equal, if not superior, to those of Shakespeare. By the middle of the eighteenth century, however, his reputation had sharply declined: while Shakespeare was increasingly venerated as a type of original genius, Jonson was contrastingly seen as a writer of patchy and derivative talents, excessively devoted to the authors of antiquity and to the social minutiae of his age, anxiously resentful of his great and 'gentle' rival. This popular, formalized contrast of the two men's characters and abilities profoundly affected the subsequent reputations of both Shakespeare and Jonson. In this new collection of biographical, critical and historical essays, Ian Donaldson challenges many long-held and recent assumptions about the nature of Jonson's personality and creative achievement, offering fresh readings of his life and art.
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