Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre (Paperback)

Introduction A. D. Cousins and Alison V. Scott; 1. Feigning the commonwealth: Jonson's 'Epigrams' A. D. Cousins; 2. The Jonsonian masque and the politics of decorum Alison V. Scott; 3. The politics (and pairing) of Jonson's country house poems Robert C. Evans; 4. Style, versatility and the politics of the epistles John Roe; 5. Jonson's politics of gender and genre: Mary Wroth and 'Charis' Marea Mitchell; 6. Jonson's metempsychosis revisited: patronage and religious controversy Richard Dutton; 7. Jonson's humanist tragedies Tom Cain; 8. A generic prompt in Jonson's 'Timber', or 'the Discoveries' Eugene D. Hill.