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| Genre/Vorm: | Biography biografi |
|---|---|
| Genoemd persoon: | Ben Jonson |
| Genre: | Biografie |
| Soort document: | Boek |
| Alle auteurs / medewerkers: |
Ian Donaldson |
| ISBN: | 9780198129769 0198129769 |
| OCLC-nummer: | 713186711 |
| Onderscheidingen: | Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Biography 2012. |
| Beschrijving: | xvii, 533 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Inhoud: | The biographer's bones -- Scotland 1618-1619 -- Debatable land 1542-1572 -- Influences 1572-1588 -- Conflicts 1588-1592 -- Entering the theatre 1594-1597 -- Saved by the book 1597-1598 -- Global satire 1598-1601 -- The wolf's black jaw 1601-1603 -- Scots, plots, and panegyrics 1603-1605 -- Following the plot 1605-1607 -- Employment 1607-1610 -- Communities 1607-1612 -- Travels 1611-1613 -- Fame 1613-1616 -- Money 1614-1617 -- Scholarship 1619-1630 -- Growing old 1619-1626 -- Dying late 1626-1637 -- Remembrance with posterity. |
| Verantwoordelijkheid: | Ian Donaldson. |
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It was a brilliant, epoch making, and memorable life superbly served by Ian Donaldson. Jonson earned his fame. This is and will remain the biography to have. Ralph Berry, Contemporary Review A rare and valuable achievement. Elegant in style, flexible in approach, and characterised by a tone of intelligent curiosity, it is engaging as well as definitive. Lisa Gorton, Australian Book Review Deeply researched but happily readable. New York Review of Books absorbing biography New Statesman fascinating portrait...brilliant biography Daily Telegraph authoritative and lucid biography Sunday Telegraph definitive biography of this quarrelsome playwright. Sunday Times The biographical material on Jonson is extraordinarily rich...Donaldson's fine book is stocked with new material The Guardian exemplary new biography...rich in detail and insights The Guardian a work of clarity and lucidity, exact in its historical detail, full of new material and ingeniously suggestive in its conjecture and interpretation. Sam Leith, Spectator Donaldson is ideally placed to write the definitive life, and he has done so. John Carey, Sunday Times Ian Donaldson has written a splendid life of this extraordinary man, which all claimants to the "tribe of Ben" will savor and prize. The Weekly Standard A learned biography, it cuts a revealing section through the Jacobean Age. Michael Alexander, The Tablet His deep involvement with Jonson scholarship and criticism ... is apparent on every page of his authoritative, elegantly written, and illuminatingly illustrated biography. Stanley Wells, New York Review of Books Meer lezen...
