Ben Jonson and the Roman Frame of Mind / / Katharine Eisaman Maus.
Katharine Maus explores the biographical reasons for Jonson's preference for particular Latin authors; the effects of Roman moral and psychological paradigms on his methods of characterization and generic choices; the connection between his critical theory and artistic practice; and the impact...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1985 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. Introduction: Jonson's Classics
- II. Virtue and Vice: Characterization in The Early Plays
- III. Profit, Delight, and Imitation: Theory and Practice in the Middle Comedies
- IV. Roman Moral Psychology and Jonson's Dramatic Forms
- V. Jonson and the Roman Social Ethos
- VI. The Late Jonson
- Notes
- Index