“Say They Are Saints Although That Saints They Show Not”: John Weever's 1599 Epigrams to Marston, Jonson, and Shakespeare

Jones, William Rusty

doi:10.1525/hlq.2010.73.1.83

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W eever, J ohn

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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

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John Weever (1575/76–1632), satirist, poet, epigrammist, and antiquarian, is primarily remembered for Ancient funerall monuments (1631), an 871‐page work cataloguing ancient, medieval, and contemporary epitaphs. Since many of these physical epitaphs have been lost, Weever's transcriptions and commentaries have proved invaluable to scholars. Weever is also known for his satirical verses: he published five books of epigrams and satires, and attempted to follow the model of his lauded mentor Ben Jonson, although his efforts in this regard were ridiculed by his contemporaries.

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