Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare by Chris Laoutaris

Author:Chris Laoutaris [Laoutaris, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781639363278
Google: xMZ0EAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0B3Y995TH
Goodreads: 61272020
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2023-03-30T07:00:00+00:00

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Ben Jonson, who may have taken a leading role in the compilation of the First Folio’s preliminary materials (though some scholars accord this honour to Edward Blount), was described by one of his earliest biographers, Anthony à Wood, as having been part of what amounted to a kind of Oxford ‘set’ of authors:

His own proper industry and addiction to books, especially to ancient Poets and Classical authors, made him a person of curious learning and judgment, and of singular excellence in the art of Poetry. Which, with his accurate judgment and performance, known only to those few, who are truly able to judge of his works, have gained from the most eminent Scholars of his time… an increasing admiration. Dr Richard Corbet of Christ Church [College, Oxford] and other Poets of this University, did in reverence to his parts, invite him to Oxon [Oxford], where continuing for some time in Christ Church in writing and composing plays, he was, as a member thereof, actually created Master of Arts in 1619, and therefore upon that account I put him among the Oxford writers…

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