Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

3/1/1978 - 9/30/1978

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Stuart Court Politics and the Tribe of Ben

FAIN: FA-12342-78

Leah S. Marcus
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37203-2416)

To explore the dimension of political rhetoric in the poetry of Ben Jonson and other poets writing in the Cavalier mode and to consider how they echoed and supported some of the major policies of the Stuart monarchy, particularly those designed to restore the feudal pattern of English society.