Kernan, Alvin

Kernan, Alvin B. Alchemy and acting the major plays of Ben Jonson. Studs Lit Imag6, no. 1 (Apr 1973) 1-22. 

Kernan, Alvin. The Cankered Muse. New Haven Yale University Press, 1959. 

See James I, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, and Daemonologie in Forme of a Dialogue (London, 1597). Harrisnotes that James not only presented himself as the nation s moral physician, but demonstrated a notable interest in Paracelsian medicine see Foreign Bodies, 55-6. On James s interest in the theater, see, for instance, Alvin Kernan, Shakespeare, the King s Playwright Theater in the Stuart Court, 1604-1614 (New Haven Yale University Press, 1995). 

The Revenger s Tragedy and the Morality Tradition, Scrutiny 6 (1938), 402,-44, reprinted in Salingar, Dramatic Form in Shakespeare and the ]acobeans (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1986), 206-21 Alvin Kernan also discusses the relationship in The Cankered Muse (New Haven Yale University Press, 1959), 223-32. 

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