Shakespeare and the Poets' War

James Bednarz

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Elizabethan Dramatists as Literary Critics

1. Shakespeare's Purge of Jonson: The Theatrical Context of Troilus and Cressida

Part 1

2. Jonson on Shakespeare: Criticism as Self-Creation

3. Representing Jonson: Histriomastix and the Origin of the Poets' War

4. Shakespeare in Love: The Containment of Comical Satire in As You Like It

5. Marston's Festive Comedy: Punishing Jonson in Jack Drum's Entertainment

Part 2

6. The War of the Private Theaters: Cynthia's Revels or What You Will

7. Shakespeare at the Fountain of Self-Love: Twelfth Night at the Center of the Poets' War

Part 3

8. "Impeaching Your Own Quality'': Constructions of Poetic Authority in Poetaster and Satiromastix

9. Ben Jonson and the "Little Eyases'': Theatrical Politics in Hamlet

An Armed Epilogue: Troilus and Cressida and the Impact of the Poets' War

Chronological Appendix

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature

About the Author

James P. Bednarz is professor of English at the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, where he has received the Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching. His articles on Elizabethan literary relations have appeared in a wide range of journals including ELH, Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Drama, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, The Huntington Library Quarterly, and Spenser Studies.

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