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ISBN/UID: 9780719016370
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 15 October 1996
Description
Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. Thi...
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304 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780719016370
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 15 October 1996
Description
Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. Thi...