The third requisite in our poet or maker is imitation, imitatio, to be able to convert the substance or riches of another poet to his own use. To make choice of one excellent man above the rest, and so to follow him until he grow very he, or so like him as the copy may … More Volpone and Lear – Introduction
This essay was published in Prudentia, Supplementary Number 1994. The volume was entitled TRADITION AND TRADITIONS. Please click on the link below to read the whole essay and enlarge your view within your browser as necessary. jim-respublica If you wish to hear Jim speaking recently about this theme then go to his posting at: https://wordpress.com/post/nanojim.com/439
This is one of the first of Jim Tulip’s essays where he begins to explore the underlying impulses of Ben Jonson’s play Volpone. This subject was to become one of Jim’s abiding passions. view-volpone-essay-here Here is also a recent (audio) conversation (in 3 short parts) that Michael Griffith had with Jim about his fascination with Jonson and … More An Approach to the Reference of Volpone
Nowhere is this, arguably, more apparent than in the relation of Jonson’s Volpone to Shakespeare’s King Lear. The two plays belong to the same year of theatre, 1605 – 1606. They were both performed by the same group of actors, The Kings’ Men, Shakespeare’s company, and they both respond, though in very different ways, to … More Nano and King Lear
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Copyright Notice: © James Tulip 2015-. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to James Tulip with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Nano appears with his … More Nano’s Aesthetics
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