Out of the Authority of Ancient and Late Writers : Ben Jonson's Use of Textual Sources in The Masque of Queens

Author / Editor
Smialkowska, Monika.

Title
Out of the Authority of Ancient and Late Writers : Ben Jonson's Use of Textual Sources in The Masque of Queens

Published
ELR 32: 268-86, 2002.

Description
Classical and medieval allusions in Jonson's masque, particularly to Chaucer's HF, suggest a complicated, ambivalent understanding of fame.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.