Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 905. Tuesday, 7 December 1993.
(1) From: Tom Clayton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 06 Dec 1993 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT)
Subj: Re: SHK 4.0904 Re: Masques
(2) From: Stephen Orgel <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 6 Dec 1993 10:09:29 -0800 (PST)
Subj: Re: SHK 4.0904 Re: Masques
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From: Tom Clayton <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 06 Dec 1993 08:34:55 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: 4.0904 Re: Masques
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0904 Re: Masques
Jongsook Lee has some provocative and non-new-historical things to say on these
matters in *Ben Jonson's Poesis* (UP of Virginia, 1989).
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From: Stephen Orgel <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 6 Dec 1993 10:09:29 -0800 (PST)
Subject: 4.0904 Re: Masques
Comment: Re: SHK 4.0904 Re: Masques
THANK YOU JAMES MCKENNA. No, no offense taken (alas, I'm getting
used to it). Yes, Jonson is a deeply royalist thinker. I find more
ambiguity in Queens than you do--see my piece in SOLICITING
INTERPRETATION that I cited in my last. I think the big point is
that Jonson identifies himself with the king--this becomes
quite clear in Queens. Jonathan Goldberg writes well about it in
JAMES I AND THE POLITICS OF LITERATURE. You might also look at
Joe Loewenstein's brilliant book, much of which is on the masque.
I don't have the title in my head, but it's his only book. Also
Leah Marcus, THE POLITICS OF MIRTH. And David Bergeron has a good
bibliography of masque stuff, from about ten years ago.
Best, S.O.