Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare

Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare
Author: John Casson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1445654679

Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Author: Michael Dobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198708734

This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. It offers stimulating and authoritative coverage of every aspect of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and in film.

The Alchemist

The Alchemist
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2024-04-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.

Ben Jonson and Posterity

Ben Jonson and Posterity
Author: Martin Butler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110890663X

Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.