Riggs: ∗ben Jonson∗: A Life (cloth) - Hardcover

RIGGS, D

 
9780674066250: Riggs: ∗ben Jonson∗: A Life (cloth)

Synopsis

Traces the life of the English poet and dramatist, describes the background of his times, and discusses Jonson's major works

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'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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Traces the life of the English poet and dramatist, describes the background of his times, and discusses Jonson's major works.

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ISBN 10:  067406626X ISBN 13:  9780674066267
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1989
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