Ian Donaldson
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Soldier, satirist, duellist, principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, tutor to the son of Sir Walter Ralegh, and Shakespeare's greatest contemporary, Ben Jonson was a complex and volatile character. Ian Donaldson's biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Jonson to provide a depiction of his life.