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Essays, scholarly articles, book reviews dealing with Ben Jonson.

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• "But Worth pretends": Discovering Jonsonian Masque in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-3/hagewrot.htm
  Anita M. Hagerman analyzes "Wroth's connections to Ben Jonson and the possibilities the connections offer regarding both the form and content of Wroth's sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus."

• "On the Famous Voyage": Ben Jonson and Civic Space

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-2/mcraonth.htm
  Essay by Andrew McRae from Early Modern Literary Studies (September 1998).

• "The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/si-07/blissett.htm
  William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."

• (Self)-Fashioning of Ezekiel Edgworth in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, The

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-3/macijons.html
  Essay by Jean MacIntyre from Early Modern Literary Studies 4:3 (January 1999).

• Ben Jonson and Cervantes

  http://www.uv.es/~fores/YamadaYumiko.uk.html
  Yumiko Yamada suggests that while many studies of Cervantes make connections to Shakespeare, the connection to Jonson deserves more critical attention.

• Ben Jonson Unmasked

  http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/jonson.html
  An essay by Kathleen A. Prendergrast on Jonson's changing attitudes towards his fellow playwrights, the theater as a medium, and his own role as a dramatist.

• Ben Jonson, from The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin-Hood (1641)

  http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sdb2/jonson.htm
  Short background on Jonson's last play, excerpt, and notes.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/05-1/stegrev.htm
  Matthew Steggle reviews Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice and Theory, by Richard Cave, et al.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-2/rev_rce1.html
  Robert C. Evans reviews Ben Jonson: Poetry and Architecture, by A.W. Johnson.

• Book Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/stegrev.htm
  Matthew Steggle reviews Ben Jonson's Antimasques: A history of growth and decline, by Lesley Mickel.

• Book Reviews

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/steg2rev.htm
  Matthew Steggle reviews Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour and Every Man Out of His Humour, Ed. Helen Ostovich.

• Jonson's Romish Foxe

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-2/brunvol.htm
  Alizon Brunning argues that Volpone "can also be read as an overtly Anti-Catholic discourse."

• Jonson's Stoic Politics: Lipsius, the Greeks, and the "Speach According to Horace"

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/04-1/evanjons.html
  Robert C. Evans suggests comparisons between Lipsius and Jonson, for "[b]oth men seem to have equated good politics with moral goodness: the just ruler, the worthy citizen, and the ideal commonwealth should all be rooted in virtue."

• Marking his Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-3/bergjons.html
  Sara van den Berg suggests that "[t]o investigate his punctuation is to investigate not only his specific practices but, even more importantly, his theory of the text."

• The Swinburne Project

  http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/acs-idx.pl?type=fullText&rgn=work&byte=2541030
  A study of Ben Jonson: comedies, tragedies, masques, miscellaneous works, and discoveries.

• Theater Review

  http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/08-2/eastrev.html
  David Nicol reviews Eastward Ho!

 

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