Ben Jonson and Sidneian Legacies of Hospitality

Abstract

BEN Jonson's celebration of the Sidney family in 'To Penshurst has generated several lines of critical inquiry. In general, scholars have argued that Jonson offers Sidneian hospitality as a model for readers to emulate.1 More particularly, some studies suggest that his praise comments on changing political and economic conditions in the period, especially with respect to the practices of ambitious courtiers and the displacement of aristocratic reciprocity by capitalist modes of exchange.2 Other studies set the poem's nostalgic depiction of liberality against the family's actual financial practices and debts,3 or its represen tation of idealized master-servant exchanges against actual labor condi tions and status distinctions.4

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