Author: DONALDSON, Ian.
Title: The World Upside-Down. Comedy from Jonson to Fielding.
Description: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Ex-library. B/W plates. O/wise good. The major & related concerns of the book are with "...the nature of Ben Jonson's influence upon comic writing throughout...[the period from the early years of King James's reign to Walpole's Licensing Act of 1737] and with the notion of comedy as an imaginative representation of social disorder." Scarce. 211pp.

Keywords: english analysis history 17th century seventeenth literary literature renaissance poetry ben jonson comedy