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Ben Jonson experimented with prose in early comedies like Every Man Out of His Humour, which mix prose and verse, and his two full-prose plays. This paper uses DocuScope, which classifies the language of texts into rhetorical categories, to show that Jonson's prose taps into a linguistic pattern of questions, social identifiers, and forms of direct address, an association that overwhelms the full-prose Epicoene and Bartholomew Faire.
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This page is a summary of: “To Corrupt a Man in the Midst of a Verse”: Ben Jonson and the Prose of the World, Ben Jonson Journal, May 2017, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/bjj.2017.0179.
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