Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393090352
Category : Masques
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393090352
Category : Masques
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521292481
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A volume containing three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays: Sejanus, Volpone and Epicoene.
Ben Jonson: Four Plays
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408179636
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of Ben Jonson's plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N. Watson), Bartholmew Fair (edited by G.R. Hibbard) and Epicoene or The Silent Woman (edited by Roger Holdsworth). Today Jonson's works are widely considered to be amongst the best produced in his period. The new introduction by Robert N. Watson explores the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as providing a guide to the language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes gloss the text in greater detail, making this the ideal edition for study and classroom use.
Ben Jonson - Plays - Complete Collection -
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: READ BOOKS
ISBN: 9781443733724
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
This edition of Ben Jonson's Plays is complete in two volumes. This is Volume One. Contents: Vol 1: Cynthia's Revels (1600) Epicoene (1609) Every Man in His Humour, first version (1598) second version (1601) Every Man out of His Humour (1599) The Poetaster (1601) Sejanus (1603) Vulpine (1605). At the end of each volume is a glossary.Keywords: Bartholomew Fair Every Man Humour Sejanus Sad Shepherd Ben Jonson Magnetic Lady Vulpine Revels Alchemist Staple Cynthia Vol 1 Conspiracy Devil Glossary
Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Author: Sean McEvoyPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.
Five Plays
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192839442
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is a modernized version with full annotation.
The Workes of Benjamin Jonson
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Every Man in His Humour
Author: Ben JonsonFive Plays
Author: Heinrich Von KleistPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300049053
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Ben Jonson
Author: Ben JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317897919
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of realism. Brief introductions to each play discuss the local settings, sources, theatre history and further readings. The general introduction includes a biography of Jonson, a chronology of the plays and masques, and separate essays on each play, dealing particularly with Jonson's satirical treatments of trends and shams of the day, whether political, social, commercial, or spiritual.