Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd: With Waldron's Continuation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd: With Waldron's Continuation

The Sad Shepherd is not one of the great works upon which Jon son's Titanic reputation rests. It is, as a rule, little mentioned by critics, for it stands at a disadvantage in two important respects. In the first place, it is of little use for the purpose of illustrating those peculiar qualities, in virtue of which its author holds a position of his own in the motley company of Elizabethan playwrights. In the second, it has ...