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Dec 16, 2013 · Abstract. Scholars have established Jonson’s art, reputation, and character almost entirely through study of his works in print in early quartos and the 1616 and 1640 Folios and thus have largely failed to investigate how Jonson composed his works in manuscript and how these manuscripts were copied, circulated, and used in the transmission of his texts, including into print.
Throughout the eighteenth century this comparative assessment was further weighted by a growing conviction, stirred by Rowe's biographical speculations in his edition of Shakespeare in 1709, that Jonson was chronically envious of his rival's more fluent genius, and that Jonson's writings were coldly laborious, lacking Shakespeare's spontaneity and generous warmth.
Throughout the eighteenth century this comparative assessment was further weighted by a growing conviction, stirred by Rowe's biographical speculations in his edition of Shakespeare in 1709, that Jonson was chronically envious of his rival's more fluent genius, and that Jonson's writings were coldly laborious, lacking Shakespeare's spontaneity ...
Dec 16, 2013 · The following is a comprehensive overview of the history of Ben Jonson scholarship since 1900. This chapter on the literary criticism of Jonson’s writings is meant to be a useful tool for Renaissance scholars and college students but is not, because of space constraints, designed to be an exhaustive study that covers every essay and book on Jonson during the past 111 years.
Jul 20, 2020 · Timber. Jonson appears as a humanistic thinker in Timber, and his career reflected humanistic motivations and aspirations. Fundamentally, Jonson conceived of learning, thought, and language as phases of people’s active life. Humanists conceived of education as the initiation of patterns of wise and effective behavior in the student’s life.
Jonson s Reception in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century ), and Tom Lockwood ( Jonson s Reception: The Nineteenth Century ). A good unpublished study is Andrew N. Lynn, The Impact of Ben Jonson, 1637 1700 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge, 2001). For the stage tradition, see Noyes, Jonson on the English Stage; Ejner J. Jensen ...
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Dec 16, 2013 · The first two volumes of the edition, appearing together in 1925, contained none of Jonson’s texts: they were given over entirely to an account of ‘The Man and His Work’, which the editors described in their preface as ‘editorial matter’. 2 While introductions to Jonson’s texts make up all of the second volume, and much of the first, Herford’s ‘Life’ is the first step.
