SOURCE: "Clues to Just Judgment: I," in Vision and Judgment in Ben Jonson's Drama, Yale University Press, 1968, pp. 95-125.
In the essay below, Jackson explores the relation between dramatic art and moral judgment in Jonson's plays. Jackson focuses on the theme of nobility and the recurrence of money symbolism to reveal the rhetorical character of Jonson's dramaturgy.
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