Titlebook: Ben Jonson; A Literary Life W. David Kay Book 1995 W. David Kay 1995 biography.Classicism.English.humour.independence.knowledge.patrons.pla

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Learned Inventions,etic fable, scenic display and dancing by the nobility — won him favour and reward in the new Jacobean court. Jonson’s confidence in his skill as a masque writer is shown by his boast to Drummond ‘that next himself only Fletcher and Chapman could make a masque’ (.., 11. 43–4). In this genre as in ot

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The Beleaguered Muse,he Tribe of Ben’, but in general the years from his fiftieth birthday in June 1622 to his death in 1637 were filled with difficulties. At court his position was threatened first by the ageing King’s hyper-sensitivity to public criticism and then by the change in cultural styles following the accessi

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Demography and?Income Inequalityred with a love of literature, but how or when he decided to become a dramatic poet is difficult to determine. Unlike Shakespeare, whose ‘lost years’ are completely undocumented, many of Jonson’s activities in his later youth and early manhood are known, but the surviving records are incomplete. How