Great Instructor
Charles Nicholl, 31 August 1989
“... ken the man weel: he’s one of my thirty pound knights’ – which hit too obviously at King James’s sale of honours. Punishment for this sort of thing was no joke. When the authors were arrested, ‘the report was that they should then have their ears cut, and noses.’ Confrontation was Jonson’s mode as a man and a writer. He was a ... ”