Ben Jonson: A Life by David Riggs

Ben Jonson: A Life

David Riggs

416 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative medium-paced
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Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the "great refiner" who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant images of folly and deceit. He was also a cele...

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