The Sad Shepherd


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Originally published in 1929, this volume contains Ben Jonson's incomplete play The Sad Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood. It first appeared in the second volume of Jonson's works in 1641 and the text for this edition was largely based on that version, with some modernisation of spelling and punctuation.




The Sad Shepherd


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Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd


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Ben Jonson


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Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist.







The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson


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An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.




Ben Jonson


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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.







Ben Jonson


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This concise biography surveys Jonson's career and provides an introduction to his works in the context of Jacobean politics, court patronage and his many literary rivalries. Stressing his wit and inventiveness, it explores the strategies by which he attempted to maintain his independence from the conditions of theatrical production and from his patrons and introduces new evidence that, despite his vaunted classicism, he repeatedly appropriated the matter or forms of other English writers in order to demonstrate his own artistic superiority.