The Restoration Transposed

Abstract

Tonson was also among a consortium that published Jonson's Works in 1716-1717; see Tom Lockwood, 'The Works of Ben Jonson (1716-17): Textual Essay', in Ben Jonson Online. The 1709 comedies were Volpone, The Alchemist and Epicene.11 Compare also The Whole Woorkes of George Gascoigne, published in 1587 and never reissued; the works of Thomas Churchyard, never republished after the author's death in 1604; and the poetry of Richard Barnfield, never published after Barnfield's death in 1627. There were no seventeenthcentury editions of either Wyatt or Surrey.

Aphra Behn: Portraiture and The Biographical Account

“…The Aphra Behn constructed in Poems may be only minimally a woman of the theatre, but she is a well-connected and well-regarded coterie poet'. 48 This analysis of the text within the 1684 Poems further supports the idea that careful thought was taken over the design of the portrait for the frontispiece engraving, which likewise created a visual parallel with coterie poets like Philips. In her portrait and poetic persona, Behn sought to stress her femininity and genteel status; it was chiefly in her theatrical writing that she sought to promote a more complex, and at times masculine, commercial identity.…”