The Emergence of Dramatic Criticism in England: From Jonson to Pope

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Focusing on dramatic criticism, this book explores the self authorizing strategies of writers such as Jonson, Dryden, Aphra Behn, Thomas Rymer, Jeremy Collier and Joseph Addison. Cannan focuses on how they established themselves as critics, and paved the way for the birth of dramatic criticism in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England.


About the Author


Paul D. Cannan is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has published articles on seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century drama and criticism in "The Review of English Studies," "Studies in Philology," "Philological Quarterly," and "Modern Philology."