Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Works of Ben Jonson: Masques at court
Author: Ben JonsonBen Jonson
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300012590
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. Because its flexibility provided a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson was able to resolve and transcend the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of his drama. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Inigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. In early 1969, Yale University Press published The Complete Masques, the first one-volume edition and the most carefully edited and annotated text available. A modernized version, the 576 page Complete Masques includes the faithful reprinting of Jonson’s own glosses and notes, translated and annotated, as well as explanatory notes which offer the most detailed critical commentary ever undertaken. This abridged collection contains the most important of the works included in the large edition, and Mr. Orgel’s introduction which discusses Jonson’s development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones’s development of the illusionistic stage. Mr. Orgel is associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Works of Ben Jonson, in Nine Volumes: Masques at court
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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 Works of Ben. Jonson: Masques at court. Epigrams. The forest. Underwoods, consisting of divers poems
Author: Ben JonsonCourt Masques
Author: David LindleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192834560
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court, and it has increasingly come to be recognized as a genre offering a fascinating insight into the culture and politics of the early seventeenth century. This selection of 18 masques traces the evolution of the genre from Jonson's early masques for King James I to Davenant's 1640 masque for Charles I, performed just before the outbreak of civil war. It also includes examples of entertainments performed on royal progresses, as well as one domestic masque. Court masques were extravagant multi-media happenings, imbued with often arcane allegorical programmes by writers and designers, and frequently commenting on topical political issues. In this, the most substantial available selection, readers are offered the annotation necessary to gain an understanding of the complexities of the individual texts. Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University ofYork, the texts have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition to the detailed notes there is a scholarly introduction, making this edition invaluable to students of Renaissance drama and court culture.
Ben Jonson's Antimasques
Author: Lesley MickelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429864442
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
First published in 1999, this volume examines how under the patronage of James I and then Charles I, Ben Jonson wrote no less than 28 court masques. Paying particular attention to the antimasque, Lesley Mickel discusses in detail those court entertainments which contributed significantly to the genre’s evolution and development. Her approach is innovative in that she examines these court entertainments in relation to Jonson’s poetry and dramatic works. This reveals some idea of the way in which Jonson perceived the relationship between satire and panegyric, as well as highlighting the related, if oppositional, views of state power which he expresses in the Roman plays and in the masques.
Masques of Difference
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057540
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Masques of Difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions of monarchy, empire, and national identity were being radically redefined. All four masques reflect the royal court's self-representation as moral, orderly, and just, in contrast to stylized images of chaotically (and exotically) "othered" groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy.
The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque
Author: David BevingtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594363
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A 1998 collection which takes an alternative look at the courtly masque in early seventeenth-century England.
Masque of Blacknesse. Masque of Beauty.
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849021135
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A modern edition of two of Ben Jonson's Masques.