SOURCE: "Ben Jonson and the Centered Self," in Modern Critical View: Ben Jonson, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, pp. 89-110.
In the following essay, Greene claims that all of Jonson 's work is organized around two images: the circle, which implies harmony and equilibrium, and a center, which suggests the ruler or solitary independence. Greene traces how the use of these symbols differs in the masques, poems, and plays.
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