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 or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of
the age, he had
- ISBN10 0199697477
- ISBN13 9780199697472
- Publish Date 11 April 2013 (first published 27 October 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 562
- Language English