Excerpt from The New Inn: Or the Light Heart
A twofold misconception regarding The New Inn prevails in the minds of students of English literature: first, as to the author"s relations with the public at the time of its presentation; and secondly, as to the relation in which the play stands to the poet"s other comedies. Jonson himself, and his partisans, as well as his detractors, have been responsible for the prominence which has been given to the "damning" of the piece; and the event has been so magnified and distorted that the only picture which is conjured up, when the name of this comedy is mentioned, is one of poor old Ben, driven from the boards by the jeers of personal enemies. Inconsistently linked with this is the idea that the play, thus unmercifully hissed off the stage by the dramatist"s foes, was a work of imbecility and dotage: a play written when the palsy, laying hold upon his powers, led to the production of a monstrosity wholly unlike the other offspring of the poet"s brain.
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