Download or read book Ben Jonson and Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by George Greenwood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ben Jonson and Shakespeare Now if this statement is intended to mean (and I can assign no other reasonable significance to the words) that we know more about the life of Shakspere of Strat ford than we know about that of any poet contemporary with him, there is an audacity about it which is really quite sublime; indeed the proverbial one step between the sublime and the ridiculous seems here to have entirely disappeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ben Jonson s Plays Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Ben Jonson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ben Jonson's Plays, Vol. 1 of 2 The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality as sumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, having been cast into prison and forfeited. He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade. As a youth he attracted the attention of the famous antiquary, William Camden, then usher at Westminster School, and there the poet laid the solid foundations of his classical learning. Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Study of Ben Jonson Classic Reprint written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Study of Ben Jonson IF poets may be divided into two exhaustive but not exclusive classes, -the gods of harmony and creation, the giants of energy. And invention, -the supremacy of Shakespeare among the gods of English verse is not more unquestionable than the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Shakespeare Day by Day written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Shakespeare s Versification written by M. A. Bayfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Study of Shakespeare's Versification: With an Inquiry Into the Trustworthiness of the Early d104s, an Examination of the 1616 Folio of Ben Jonson's Works, and Appendices Including a Revised d104 of Antony and Cleopatra Besides these and others not mentioned, we Often have such elegancies as Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em (portia to Brutus), We'll see um starve first (lear to Cordelia), I am certain on't (antony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Jonson Allusion Book written by Jesse Franklin Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson From 1597 to 1700 Moreover, in the period following the Restoration the editors have had to exercise a certain discretion in condensing allusions and passing over those possessing little or no significance. Most of these, however, have been collected, and, if the opportunity offers, may later be published by way of a supplement. Perhaps it should be added that the numerous jingling rhymes printed by W. R. Chetwood in his Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Ben Jonson, 1756, have been entirely ignored; Chetwood cites no authority for them, and they seem to be crude fabrications of his own Muse. Mr. Bradley originally undertook the task of gathering these allusions in the preparation of a doctoral dissertation at Cornell University, and to him belongs the major credit of collecting and transcribing the passages. Later Mr. Adams became associated with him in the labor, and assumed specifically the responsibility of editing the material for the reader. It has not always been easy to fix the dates of the passages quoted, or to identify the authors; and in dealing with such a mass of detail, it has doubtless been impossible to escape errors. For all such defects the editors crave the indulgence of scholars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Shakespeare Select Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare, Select Plays: Much Ado About Nothing In a previous entry, which apparently belongs to the same year, under the date of the 4th of August, Much Ado is, with As You Like It, Henry V, and Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, among the books which were for some reason or other 'to be staied.' Besides the quarto of 1600 no other edition of this play appeared till it was included in the first folio of 1623. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ben Jonson s Every Man Out of His Humor Reprinted from Holme s Quarto of 1600 written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stagery of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by R. Crompton Rhodes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stagery of Shakespeare Moreover I see no reason to introduce extraneous problems by comparisons with plays written for performance under circum stances which have no parallel in Shakespeare, as those by Ben Jonson for the Children of the Chapel. The single exception I have made is to Show the use Of the device of discovery. This involves, Of course, an attempt to establish the continuity Of practice which connects the practice of drawing curtains on the Elizabethan Stage with that, of drawing scenes on the Restoration Stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Critical Examination of the Poetic Genius of Ben Jonson Classic Reprint written by Viktor Uellner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Critical Examination of the Poetic Genius of Ben Jonson In asserting that this prologue touches with spirit as well as with humour on the defects and absurdities of the old stage, 'that Lyly, Kyd, and others are evidently pointed at, Giflord is surely mistaken and every impartial reader will willingly admit that Jonson is speaking of his own times, when he says that he loved the old stage not so much as to dare serve the ill customs 'of the age, i. E. The agc'in which he lived. That this must be the case follows from, the unmistakable allusion to Shakespeare's historical plays, representing th ar of the roses, of which no less than four plays (richard III. 1593, Richard II. 1594 and Henry IV. In two parts 1598) had been written and performed, when, Every man in hjs humour was acted on the stage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity written by Colin Burrow and published by Oxford Shakespeare Topics. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains for students and scholars the nature and extent of Shakespeare's classical learning. It shows why Ben Jonson was wrong to claim that he had 'small Latin and less Greek', and demonstrates that Shakespeare acquired the central foundations of his art from his classical reading. It explores in detail his relationship to Virgil, Ovid, Plautus, Terence, Seneca, and Plutarch, as well as showing how his beliefs about and attitudes towards classicalliterature changed in the course of his career.
Download or read book A Tale of a Tub written by Florence May Snell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Tale of a Tub: Ben Jonson Finally, I desire to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the unfailing courtesy and cordiality of the vast student - body whom we call the Men of Yale, without which the opportunities which Yale University so generously throws open to women could not be what they now are, the crowning joy of student-days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Rosalind Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light. Critics traditionally exalted Shakespeare, at Jonson’s expense. In this biography, first published in 1986, the author presents a full and accurate account of Jonson’s life in modern times. Rosalind Miles follows Jonson from his obscure beginnings to his burial in Westminster Abbey, as the first Poet Laureate, in 1637. Her Jonson is vivid and vigorous, equally alive in his life and in his work. This title will be of interest to students of history, English literature and Renaissance drama.
Download or read book Shakespeare and His Fellows written by D. H. Madden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and His Fellows: An Attempt to Decipher, the Man and His Nature 'All that we know of Shakespeare is that he was born at Stratford-on-Avon, married, and had children there; went to London, where he commenced actor, and wrote plays and poems; returned to Stratford, made his will, and died.' These words, written by Steevens, served for more than a century as a fair summary of the events in the life of Shakespeare, so far as they were then known. But the pious labours of succeeding generations have added so much to our stock of knowledge that a presentment of the life of Shakespeare is now possible, not, indeed, complete in all respects, but far in advance of earlier efforts. 'An investigation extending over two centuries has brought together a mass of detail which far exceeds that accessible in the case of any other contemporary professional writer.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Studies in Shakespeare First Series Classic Reprint written by Homer Baxter Sprague and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Studies in Shakespeare: First Series Far from the sun and summer gale, In thy green lap was Nature's darling laid, What time where lucid Avon strayed, To him the mighty mother did unveil Her awful face. The dauntless child Stretched forth his little arms and smiled. This pencil take, she said, whose colors clear Richly paint the vernal year Thine too these golden keys, immortal Boy! This can unlock the gates of joy; Of horror that, and thrilling fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Shakespeare the Man and His Works written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare, the Man and His Works: Being All the Subject Matter About Shakespeare Contained in Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism The subject matter of this little volume comprises all the material upon Shakespeare contained in Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors (8 vols.) We have been so strongly impressed with its great value to students of Shakespeare that we have secured the right to issue, in handy form, this portion of the above named work. Right here is gathered and furnished in accessible form the most complete and satisfactory collection of literary appreciations of Shakespeare and his works extant. Three hundred seven writers are represented, including the most eminent in all periods since the time of the Great Bard. All shades of opinion have a place, and through the whole is given a most interesting and instructive view of the worlds opinion of Shakespeare. We have printed the matter exactly as it was prepared by Mr. Moulton. Substantially all the articles have been collated with the original texts. The reader will quickly note, that the order of arrangement throughout is chronological; that each article is dated and located; that the opinions are arranged in four divisions - (Personal, Upon Each Work, Authorship Controversy, General); that the whole is made readily accessible for reference by an excellent index. We believe this volume will prove of great interest and service to readers of Shakespeare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Cult of Shakespeare Classic Reprint written by F. E. Halliday and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cult of Shakespeare The Cult of Shakespeare is a survey (not over-solemn, I hope) of the fortunes of Shakespeare from the time of his death to the present day; an account of the rise of bardolatry and the more frenzied excesses of the devotees of his cult: of the liberties that have been taken with his work and the follies that have been committed in his name. Few people, I think, are fully aware of this history and of the power of the spell that the great name has exercised throughout the centuries. Yet, when the Stuarts were restored to the throne in 1660 there was no magic in the name. Even before the theatres were closed in I Shakespeare had been overshadowed by Beaumont and Fletcher and Ben Jonson, and when they were reopened at the Restoration he was remembered not very vividly as a once-popular dramatist Who wrote before the age of enlightenment. His plays as they Stood were unacceptable to an age polished by its contact with France, but, as there was a dearth of new drama after twenty years Without demand, they might be made to serve if skilfully adapted. And so we get the refined classical versions of Davenant, those strange outrageous hybrids with which the modern popularity of Shakespeare began. The refining process was continued by Dryden, Tate, Cibber and others, until at the beginning of the Georgian era poets and scholars began to return to what Shakespeare had really written, and to wrangle about the restora tion of his text. The pope-theobald-warburton-hanmer squabble is not the least diverting episode in this history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
