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This collection of original essays illustrates the diversity of current scholarly approaches to Ben Jonson. In the opening essay, Jennifer Brady explores the complex position on literary influence that Jonson arrived at in his late prose work Discoveries. Anne Lake Prescott analyzes Jonson's use of Rabelais in his own works as well as Jonson's handwritten annotations in a copy of Rabelais's 1599 Oeuvres and shows that Jonson's Rabelais is not simply "Rabelaisian" in the usual modern sense. By documenting Jonson's debt to the Flemish humanist Justus Lipsius, Robert C. Evans illustrates the complex ways in which classical influence was mediated by humanist scholarship. George A. E. Parfitt demonstrates that, although Jonson's career was dominated by the effort to articulate enduring moral positives, these positives are constantly threatened, in his work, by Jonson's acute awareness of human frailty. James Hirsh argues that Volpone depicts a world so thoroughly foolish that a writer's attempt to cure foolishness would be futile and therefore foolish itself. Alexander Leggatt revisits the issue of the double plot in Volpone and finds that an emphasis on simple thematic parallels betwee

Author

James E Hirsh; Ben Jonson

Publisher

Madison [N.J.]: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London: Associated University Presses

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838636879

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities