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- Title
BEN JONSON'S 'WIDOWED WIFE': A NEW CANDIDATE.
- Authors
BORUKHOV, BORIS
- Abstract
The article discusses the identity of a woman to whom poet Ben Jonson dedicated an epigram to. The author notes conjecture that the epigram was directed toward Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, but comments that her husband Roger Manners does not match a description in the epigram and that the omission of a name from the epigram suggests it was directed toward someone else. He theorizes that Jonson may have intended the epigram for Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, due to his friendship with the Howard family and comments that the impotence of Howard's husband Robert Devereux may explain the possible characterization of Howard as a widow in the epigram. Howard's arrest for murder may reveal why Jonson did not identity her in the epigram.
- Subjects
JONSON, Ben, ca. 1573-1637; EPIGRAM; NOBILITY (Social class) in literature; WIDOWS in literature; SOMERSET, Frances Howard Carr, Countess of, 1593-1632; ESSEX, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1566-1601
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2009, Vol 56, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjn211