Jonson, Ben, 1573-1637 / 2008-06-08 00:00:00
EBOOK SEJANUS: HIS FALL ***
This Project Gutenberg Etext Prepared Down Under In Australia by:
Amy E Zelmer
Sue Asscher
With assistance from their Californian co-conspirator
Robert Prince
Sejanus: His Fall
by Ben Jonson
Transcriber's note: This play is based on events that happend a
millenia and a half before Jonson wrote it. Jonson added 247
scholarly footnotes to this play; all were in Latin (except
for a scattering of Greek). They, and the Greek quotation which
forms Tiberius Caesar's tag line in Scene II, Act II, have been
elided.
INTRODUCTION
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first
literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose,
satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time
affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben
Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to
us almost unparalleled, at least in his age.
Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to
the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of
Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England.
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