Author: Ben Jonson Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408179636 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 740
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.
Author: Ben Johnson Publisher: 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.
Author: Ben Jonson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780582070660 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 696
Book Description
This edition of Ben Jonson's four comedies, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, (1605xxx;1614), and surveys the influences, classical and contemporary on Jonson as a playwright. Brief introductions to each play discuss local settings, sources, theatre history and suggest further reading, and the introduction includes a biography of Jonson, and a full chronology of the plays and masques.
Author: Rosalind Miles Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351997939 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Author: Sean McEvoy Publisher: 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.
Author: Ben Jonson Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780192834461 Category : British drama Languages : en Pages : 566
Book Description
This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes, and glossary further bring to life these timeless comedies for the modern reader.
Author: Ben Jonson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521318426 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 558
Book Description
Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.
Author: Ben Jonson
Author: Ben Johnson
Author: Ben Jonson
Author: Ben Johnson
Author: Ben Jonson
Author: Ben Jonson
Author: Rosalind Miles
Author: Sean McEvoy
Author: Ben Jonson
Author: Ben Jonson