New Perspectives on Ben Jonson
New Perspectives on Ben Jonson

Author: James E. Hirsh

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780838636879

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Alexander Leggatt revisits the issue of the double plot in Volpone and finds that an emphasis on simple thematic parallels between the two plots distorts the dramatic significance of their relationship. As Kate D. Levin shows, conventional critical approaches have obscured both the structural peculiarities that Jonson's plays share with his masques and his occasional disregard of playhouse pragmatism.

Ben Jonson and Posterity
Ben Jonson and Posterity

Author: Martin Butler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 110890663X

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Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.

Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment
Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780198132295

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The plays featured have been edited from the earliest printed texts.

The Alchemist
The Alchemist

Author: Erin Julian

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1780938292

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The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson's quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a masterpiece of wit and form about the self-delusions of greed and the theatricality of deception. This guide will be useful to a diverse assembly of students and scholars, offering fresh new ways into this challenging and fascinating play.

Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre
Ben Jonson and the Politics of Genre

Author: A. D. Cousins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-19

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0521513782

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This study considers how Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote. Renowned scholars offer perspectives on many of Jonson's major works, and together they reassess his political life in Jacobean and Caroline Britain.

Ben Jonson and Envy
Ben Jonson and Envy

Author: Lynn S. Meskill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-16

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0521517435

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This book examines the centrality of envy in the works of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare's greatest literary rival.

From Playhouse to Printing House
From Playhouse to Printing House

Author: Douglas A. Brooks

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-12-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521034869

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Examines how Renaissance dramatists made the difficult transition from playwrights to published authors.

The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook
The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook

Author: Robert C. Evans

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-12-10

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1441155449

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The Seventeenth-Century Literature Handbook is an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to English literature in the seventeenth century. It provides a one-stop resource for literature students, with the essential information and guidance needed at the beginning of a course through to the development of more advanced knowledge and skills. It includes: - introductions to authors, texts and contexts - guides to key critics, concepts and topics - an overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research - case studies in reading literary and critical texts - an annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. Written in clear language by leading academics, it is an indispensable starting point for students beginning their study of seventeenth-century literature.

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England
Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

Author: Allison P. Hobgood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1107041287

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Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.

Every Man in His Humour
Every Man in His Humour

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2000-10-13

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780719015656

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This is the 1601 quarto version of Ben Jonson's play, set in Florence. The text is edited and modernised, and instead of endorsing the folio version as the superior play, the introduction seeks to understand this version on its own terms.