Ben Jonson: Authority: Criticism is the first book-length study of
Jonson's literary criticism, and examines the ways that criticism
defines his unprecedented role as a professional author. Each
chapter explores a different facet: 'The Lone Wolf' looks at
Jonson's role in creating a critical discourse to respond to a new
literary market-place; 'Poet and Critic' explores the relationship
between his 'creative' and 'critical' writing; 'Poet and State'
traces his accommodations as an author with censorship and other
forms of authority; 'The Laws of Poetry' relates his appeals to
classical precedent to his insecurity in a world where literary
conditions were very different from those of ancient Greece and
Rome; 'Jonson and Shakespeare' examines the old supposed rivalry as
evidence of competing definitions of authorship. Throughout Richard
Dutton suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the
profession of letters in England for more than a century. Finally
an appendix provides a representative selection of Jonson's
critical work.
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