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Ben Jonson and Self Love: The Subtlest Maze of All
  
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Ben Jonson and Self Love: The Subtlest Maze of All (Hardcover)

by Robert Wittenburg (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 152 pages
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press (31 Oct 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0826207170
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826207173
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
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Despite an inauspicious origin as the adopted son of a London bricklayer and such misadventures as imprisonment for murder, Ben Jonson rose to prominence in England's literary scene at the beginning of the 17th century. Even in an age of versatile literary figures, Jonson's life as actor, playwright, poet, critic, translator and scholar was a remarkable one. Robert Wiltenburg aims to bring together the strands of drama and poetry in this complex literary career. Setting out to reconcile Jonson's apparently disparate accomplishments in these forms, Wiltenburg finds a unifying theme in the writer's treatment of love and self-love. Beginning with Jonson's initial depiction of self-love in "Cynthias Revels", "Ben Jonson and Self-Love" next turns to "Volpone" for the expression of the dramatic character of evil. Wiltenburg then examines two verse collections, "Epigrammes" and "The Forrest", discussing the civilizing responses to self-love and the variety of loves that flourish once self-love has been restrained. Through an analysis of these major works, Wiltenburg has made a contribution to Jonson scholarship by aiming to establish that Jonson's growing artistic mastery went hand in hand with his maturing treatment of self-love.

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