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Ben Jonson

by Riggs, David
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Overview

'Compelling... Riggs's approach to the man-as-artist is to see him as a paradox, a man of reckless defiance who boasted openly about his womanizing and criminal record, and who nonetheless represented himself in Renaissance England as the great model of a self-restrained and chastely austere classical style of writing... David Riggs's eminently readable and generously illustrated study not only fully justifies our curiosity, but handles with admirable tact what might be lurid and sensational if our only interest were the gossip.'New York Times Book Review

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Riggs (English, Stanford) provides a thorough account, synthesizing six decades of scholarship and new historical evidence. An essential description not only of Jonson, but of the English Renaissance as well. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
June 8, 1989
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
Pages
416
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780674066267

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