WebbJonson’s play resurrects Virgil, Tibullus, Horace and Ovid based on extended passages of translation from their works. Poetaster thus actively stages the dynamics of biofictional … WebbRenaissance dramatist Ben Jonson is lauded as a comedy writer extraordinaire. One of his most satirical farces, Poetaster, includes a scene involving a character’s vomiting. Beyond the obvious humor, Jonson uses this scene regarding Crispinus to assert sophisticated notions of language use, intellect, and oratory—observations for which the playwright is …
The Poetaster, by Ben Jonson - Project Gutenberg
WebbPoetaster is a late Elizabethan satirical comedy written by Ben Jonson that was first performed in 1601. The play formed one element in the back-and-forth exchange … WebbList of Ben Jonson’s Works. The success of Everyman in His Humour prompted him to write more comedies and within four years he came up with three more comedies, which are Everyman out of His Humour (1599), Cynthia’s Revels (1600), and The Poetaster (1601). All these comedies are marked by an ingenuity of plot, underlying humour, … dog licking another dog mouth
Dr Jane Rickard School of English University of Leeds
WebbThis essay argues that Ben Jonson's antagonism with his audience in the comical satires was at least in part related to his translation of the satirist to the theater. Whereas printed satires anticipated and even encouraged the displeasure of their readers, Jonson's comical satires attempt to forestall the potential displeasure of the audience by replacing their … WebbPresumably, Salingar is speaking here of Jonson's later plays, because in Poetaster evidence of such self-doubt is as absent as Jonson the author is blatantly present. Here he obtrudes himself onto his work not behind a fictional mask or disguise as in Volpone or Bartholomew Fair, but behind the historical persona of the Roman poet Horace.Before … WebbBen Jonson’s poem “Still to be neat, still to be dressed” was originally a song in his play Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman.Likely first performed in 1609 during the reign of King James I, the play was published in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson in 1619. While it was not immediately successful, the play stands as one of his most famous of the English … dog licking body excessively