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A "double Portion of his Father's Art": Congreve, Dryden, Jonson and the drama of theatrical succession - William Congreve, John Dryden, Ben Jonson
Criticism, Summer, 1997 by Harold Weber
(23.) From the title page to Jonson's The New Inne, in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Hereford and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938), 6: 395.
(24.) The first two of these four lines in the 1629 version of the "Ode" were revised for the 1631 edition to remove the reference to Brome. The original lines are quoted from R. J. Kaufmann, Richard Brome: Caroline Playwright (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), 24. The complete title of Jonson's ode provides a clear sense of his embattled relationship with his audience: "The iust indignation the Author toke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode' to himselfe."
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(25.) Owen Felltham, "An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c.," in The Poems of Owen Felltham 1604?-1668, ed. Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, SCN Editions and Studies 1 (University Park, Pa.: Seventeenth-century News, 1973), 20-28, lines 45-47.
(26.) Thomas Carew, "To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne," in The Poems of Thomas Carew with His Masque Coelum Brittanicum, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949), 64-65, lines 43-46.
(27.) R. Goodwin, "Vindiciae Jonsonianae," in Jesse Franklin Bradley and Joseph Quincy Adams, The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597 to 1700 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1922), 161-65, lines 5-6 and 61.
(28.) Sir John Suckling, "A Session of the Poets," in The Works of Sir John Suckling, ed. A. Hamilton Thompson (New York: Russell & Russell, 1964), 9-12, lines 22, 35-36.
(29.) John Oldham, "Upon the Works of Ben. Johnson"' in The Poems of John Oldham, ed. Harold F. Brooks (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), 194-202, lines 260-63.
(30.) Thomas Randolph, "An Answer to Master Ben. Jonson's Ode, to persuade him not to leave the Stage," in Bradley and Adams, The Jonson Allusion-book, 143-45, line 6.
(31.) Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691. rpt. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1971), 285 and 304.
(32.) Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), provides a list of dramatists' attacks on their audience from 1592 to 1630: "Nashe attacked audiences in 1592, Heywood in 1595, Marston in 1597, 1603, and 1604, Chapman in 1599, Beaumont in 1607 and 1690, Fletcher in 1609 and 1613, Dekker in 1609 and 1610, Webster in 1611, Middleton in 1613, Carew in 1630, and Jonson at frequent intervals throughout his career"(206).
(33.) Helgerson, 150.
(34.) D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, The Panizzi Lectures 1985 (London: The British Library, 1986), 15-16.
(35.) I would like to thank Bruce Boehrer, Elizabeth Meese and Gary Taylor for their careful readings of and valuable suggestions concerning this essay.
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