This book offers a critical assessment of the career of one of the
most formidable figures of English literature, the most influential
poet and dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Richard Dutton
focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career, the 1616 folio
collection of his works with which he crowned his growing
reputation as a man of letters, collecting together the majority of
his most enduring works - including Every Man in his Humour,
Volpone, The Alchemist; the tragedies Sejanus and Catiline; and the
major masques and poems. The book relates these works (and another
masterpiece, Bartholomew Fair, which belongs to the same period) to
Jonson's tempestuous life and times, touching on such issues as his
involvement with the Gunpowder Plot, his frequent confrontations
with the political authorities, his emergence as Poet Laureate at
Court and his often touchy relations with fellow authors like
Shakespeare and Donne. But the principal aim throughout is to offer
detailed critical analyses of Jonson's major works showing how, for
all that they are rooted in the concerns of his own age, they are
far more accessible and relevant to modern readers than is often
assumed.
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