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 liter
Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living
This text examines a key topic in modern literary studies. Contextual factors shape our perception of how literary texts are made, and how they are read. The un