Ben Jonson and the Boy Company Tradition

Abstract

Ben Jonson remains one of the more compelling person alities to emerge in the early modern drama and in the history of the playing companies. The idea that he was an innovator, even inventor, of several literary practices in the early modern period is, after all, a pervasive one in contem porary criticism. In his extraordinarily useful biography of the playwright-poet, for instance, David Riggs credits Jonson with introducing, virtually single-handedly, the concept of the individual author into the English literary tradition:

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