SOURCE: "Facts of the Matter: Satiric and Ideal Economies in the Jonsonian Imagination," in Ben Jonson's 1616 Folio, edited by Jennifer Brady and W. H. Herendeen, University of Delaware Press, 1991, pp. 64-86.
In the following essay, Maus explores the relationship between genre and economics in Jonson's work, suggesting that the "satiric economy" of the plays is absent from the allegorical masques and the idealistic poems of praise.
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