Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Ben Jonson: A tale of a tub
Author: Ben JonsonBen Jonson: A tale of a tub ; The case is altered ; Every man in his humour ; Every man out of his humour
Author: Ben JonsonThe Works of Ben. Jonson: The tale of a tub. The sad shepherd; or, A tale of Robin Hood. Mortimer's fall. Entertai[n]ments. Speeches. Masques at court
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Author: Ben JonsonA Tale of a Tub
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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A Tale of a Tub
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515119715
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A Tale of a Tub is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Ben Jonson. The last of his plays to be staged during his lifetime, A Tale of a Tub was performed in 1633 and published in 1640 in the second folio of Jonson's works. The plot, which unfolds on St. Valentine's Day, concerns the inept attempts of a variety of suitors to win the hand of Audrey Turfe, the daughter of a Middlesex constable. To break Audrey's engagement to John Clay the tilemaker, Squire Tub, a romantic rival, has the man falsely accused of theft. As Constable Turfe pursues the innocent man, yet another suitor, Justice Preamble, plays a comparable ruse against Squire Tub. All told, Audrey is chased after by four separate suitors, and apparently she has no particular preference among them. (She hesitates to accept Squire Tub, however, because of the social gap between them: "He's too fine for me, and has a Lady / Tub to his mother.") Amid the disorder, Pol-Marten, Lady Tub's usher, marries Audrey before the others realize it. Their marriage is celebrated with a wedding masque, also titled "A Tale of a Tub," which retells the story of the play. (In the colloquial usage of the time, a "tale of a tub" is the same as "a cock and bull story.")
The Works of Ben Jonson ...
Author: Ben JonsonThe Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
Author: Richard HarpPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646789
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
Ben Jonson
Author: Ian DonaldsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191636789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, and often stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones. One of the most accomplished poets of the age, he had become - in fact if not in title - the first Poet Laureate in England. Jonson's life was full of drama. Serving in the Low Countries as a young man, he overcame a Spanish adversary in single combat in full view of both the armies. His early satirical play, The Isle of Dogs, landed him in prison, and brought all theatrical activity in London to a temporary — and very nearly to a permanent — standstill. He was 'almost at the gallows' for killing a fellow actor after a quarrel, and converted to Catholicism while awaiting execution. He supped with the Gunpowder conspirators on the eve of their planned coup at Westminster. After satirizing the Scots in Eastward Ho! he was imprisoned again; and throughout his career was repeatedly interrogated about plays and poems thought to contain seditious or slanderous material. In his middle years, twenty stone in weight, he walked to Scotland and back, seemingly partly to fulfil a wager, and partly to see the land of his forebears. He travelled in Europe as tutor to the mischievous son of Sir Walter Ralegh, who 'caused him to be drunken and dead drunk' and wheeled provocatively through the streets of Paris. During his later years he presided over a sociable club in the Apollo Room in Fleet Street, mixed with the most learned scholars of his day, and viewed with keen interest the political, religious, and scientific controversies of the day. Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Ben Jonson, and locates his work within the social and intellectual contexts of his time. Jonson emerges from this study as a more complex and volatile character than his own self-declarations (and much modern scholarship) would allow, and as a writer whose work strikingly foresees - and at times pre-emptively satirizes - the modern age.
Ben Jonson
Author: David RiggsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674066267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
'Compelling... Riggs's approach to the man-as-artist is to see him as a paradox, a man of reckless defiance who boasted openly about his womanizing and criminal record, and who nonetheless represented himself in Renaissance England as the great model of a self-restrained and chastely austere classical style of writing... David Riggs's eminently readable and generously illustrated study not only fully justifies our curiosity, but handles with admirable tact what might be lurid and sensational if our only interest were the gossip.'New York Times Book Review
Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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