Awards

• Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Biography 2012.
• Shortlisted for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prizes: Biography 2012.
• Winner of SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2012.

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It was a brilliant, epoch making, and memorable life superbly served by Ian Donaldson. Jonson earned his fame. This is and will remain the biography to have. Ralph Berry, Contemporary Review A rare and valuable achievement. Elegant in style, flexible in approach, and characterised by a tone of intelligent curiosity, it is engaging as well as definitive. Lisa Gorton, Australian Book Review Deeply researched but happily readable. New York Review of Books absorbing biography New Statesman fascinating portrait...brilliant biography Daily Telegraph authoritative and lucid biography Sunday Telegraph definitive biography of this quarrelsome playwright. Sunday Times The biographical material on Jonson is extraordinarily rich...Donaldson's fine book is stocked with new material The Guardian exemplary new biography...rich in detail and insights The Guardian a work of clarity and lucidity, exact in its historical detail, full of new material and ingeniously suggestive in its conjecture and interpretation. Sam Leith, Spectator Donaldson is ideally placed to write the definitive life, and he has done so. John Carey, Sunday Times Ian Donaldson has written a splendid life of this extraordinary man, which all claimants to the tribe of Ben will savor and prize. The Weekly Standard A learned biography, it cuts a revealing section through the Jacobean Age. Michael Alexander, The Tablet His deep involvement with Jonson scholarship and criticism ... is apparent on every page of his authoritative, elegantly written, and illuminatingly illustrated biography. Stanley Wells, New York Review of Books

exemplary new biography...rich in detail and insights The Guardian a work of clarity and lucidity, exact in its historical detail, full of new material and ingeniously suggestive in its conjecture and interpretation. Sam Leith, Spectator Donaldson is ideally placed to write the definitive life, and he has done so.' John Carey, Sunday Times

absorbing biography New Statesman fascinating portrait...brilliant biography Daily Telegraph authoritative and lucid biography Sunday Telegraph definitive biography of this quarrelsome playwright. Sunday Times The biographical material on Jonson is extraordinarily rich...Donaldson's fine book is stocked with new material The Guardian exemplary new biography...rich in detail and insights The Guardian a work of clarity and lucidity, exact in its historical detail, full of new material and ingeniously suggestive in its conjecture and interpretation. Sam Leith, Spectator Donaldson is ideally placed to write the definitive life, and he has done so.' John Carey, Sunday Times

...one of the best literary biographies written in any era. * R.S White, Parergon. * His deep involvement with Jonson scholarship and criticism ... is apparent on every page of his authoritative, elegantly written, and illuminatingly illustrated biography. * Stanley Wells, New York Review of Books * A learned biography, it cuts a revealing section through the Jacobean Age. * Michael Alexander, The Tablet * Ian Donaldson has written a splendid life of this extraordinary man, which all claimants to the tribe of Ben will savor and prize. * The Weekly Standard * Donaldson is ideally placed to write the definitive life, and he has done so. * John Carey, Sunday Times * a work of clarity and lucidity, exact in its historical detail, full of new material and ingeniously suggestive in its conjecture and interpretation. * Sam Leith, Spectator * exemplary new biography...rich in detail and insights * The Guardian * The biographical material on Jonson is extraordinarily rich...Donaldson's fine book is stocked with new material * The Guardian * definitive biography of this quarrelsome playwright. * Sunday Times * authoritative and lucid biography * Sunday Telegraph * fascinating portrait...brilliant biography * Daily Telegraph * absorbing biography * New Statesman * Deeply researched but happily readable. * New York Review of Books * A rare and valuable achievement. Elegant in style, flexible in approach, and characterised by a tone of intelligent curiosity, it is engaging as well as definitive. * Lisa Gorton, Australian Book Review * It was a brilliant, epoch making, and memorable life superbly served by Ian Donaldson. Jonson earned his fame. This is and will remain the biography to have. * Ralph Berry, Contemporary Review *

Author Information

Ian Donaldson is a General Editor, with David Bevington and Martin Butler, of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (Print Edition, 7 volumes, 2011; Electronic Edition, 2012). His previous OUP books include The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding (1970), Ben Jonson: Selected Works (Oxford Authors, 1985), Jonson's Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation (OUP, 1997). He has taught at the Universities of Oxford (tutorial Fellow in English at Wadham College, 1962-9), Edinburgh (Regius Professor of English, 1991-5), and Cambridge (Fellow of King's College, 1995-2005, and Grace 1 Professor of English, 1995-2001), and at the Australian National University, Canberra (Professor of English, 1969-91). He was founding Director of the ANU's Humanities Research Centre (1974-90, 2004-7) and of Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH, 2001-3).

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