{"id":16730,"date":"2010-09-22T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2010-09-22T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T04:00:13","slug":"ben-jonson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/22\/ben-jonson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Jonson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Ben-Jonson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16731\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Ben-Jonson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Ben-Jonson.jpg 260w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/09\/Ben-Jonson-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1598 <a title=\"Ben Jonson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ben_Jonson\">Ben Jonson<\/a> was indicted for manslaughter.\u00a0 In the same year he also produced his first major success, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Every_Man_in_his_Humour\" target=\"_blank\">Every Man in His Humour<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Frye in <em>A Natural Perspective<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With <em>Every Man in His Humour <\/em>Jonson began a new type of comedy, of which Ibsen and Chekhov (Ibsen at least in his middle or &#8220;problem&#8221; period) are the inheritors.\u00a0 The contrast between Shakespeare and Ben Jonson is hackneyed, but like many hackneyed subjects, not exhausted.\u00a0 One seventeenth-century play that we know failed to please was Ben Jonson&#8217;s <em>The New Inn<\/em>: we know this because its failure was highly publicized by Jonson himself.\u00a0 Jonson wrote on the occasion a poem in which he scolds the public for not appreciating it and for preferring &#8220;some mouldy tale like <em>Pericles<\/em>&#8221; instead.\u00a0 A critical issue is involved here that it might be fruitful to examine.\u00a0 <em>The New Inn <\/em>is not first-rate Jonson; but neither is <em>Pericles<\/em> first-rate Shakespeare.\u00a0 Yet <em>Pericles <\/em>was not only popular in its own time, but has been revived with success in ours, and I doubt that any dramatic company in its right mind would attempt to revive <em>The New Inn<\/em>, though I should hope to be wrong on this point.\u00a0 Jonson&#8217;s critical principle was obviously true to him that he honestly could not understand why his audience preferred <em>Pericles<\/em>, and in trying to explain why it did we may get some insight into the rationale of Shakespeare&#8217;s technique. 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