SOURCE: "The Plays," in Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage, Bucknell University Press, 1989, pp. 246-68.
In the following essay, Evans examines the impact of patronage on Jonson's dramatic work, detecting in the plays Jonson's strategic self-advertisement and dramatic self-portraiture, as well as evidence of Jacobean London's system of power, hierarchy, and social advancement.
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