Hall, Joseph | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
BIOGRAPHY
Kinloch, T. F. The Life and Works of Joseph Hall, 1574-1656. London: Staples Press, 1951, 206 p.
Comprehensive survey of Hall's life and literary works.
CRITICISM
Boyce, Benjamin. “Joseph Hall's Characters of Vertues and Vices.” In The Theophrastan Character in England to 1642, pp. 122-35. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.
Identifies Hall as the first significant character sketch writer in England and focuses on important features of the genre.
Clausen, Wendell. “The Beginnings of English Character-Writing in the Early Seventeenth Century.” Philological Quarterly 25, no. 1 (January 1946): 32-45.
Maintains that the Theophrastus was not the only literary source for English character sketch writers, asserting that Ben Jonson was perhaps a more significant influence on the development of the English form of the genre.
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