Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques
Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: New York : Norton

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780393090352

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This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.

Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson

Author: Rosalind Miles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1351997939

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The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light. Critics traditionally exalted Shakespeare, at Jonson’s expense. In this biography, first published in 1986, the author presents a full and accurate account of Jonson’s life in modern times. Rosalind Miles follows Jonson from his obscure beginnings to his burial in Westminster Abbey, as the first Poet Laureate, in 1637. Her Jonson is vivid and vigorous, equally alive in his life and in his work. This title will be of interest to students of history, English literature and Renaissance drama.

The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson (1910)
The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson (1910)

Author: Felix Emmanuel Schelling

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 9781436550581

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist

Author: Sean McEvoy

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0748629912

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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.