Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713152111
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bartholomew Fair
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780713152111
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair
Author: Henry MorleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bartholomew Fair
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Every Man in His Humour
Author: Ben JonsonBen Jonson
Author: Rosalind MilesPublisher: 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.
Three Comedies
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140430134
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Shakespearers"s nearest rival created in Volpone and The Alchemist hilarious portraits of cupidity and chicanery, while in Bartholomew Fair he portrays his fellow Londoners at their most festive-and most bawdy.
Jonson and the Psychology of Public Theater
Author: John Gordon SweeneyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400857139
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book is a study of Ben Jonson's relationship with his audience in the public theater, as the relationship changed in the course of his career from the comical satires to Bartholomew Fair. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Alchemist
Author: Ben JonsonPublisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.
Ben Jonson
Author: Richard DuttonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death. This new collection offers detailed readings of all the major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides significant insights into the court masques and the later plays which have only recently been rediscovered as genuinely engaging stage pieces.
Eastward Hoe
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apprentices
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Author: Sean McEvoyPublisher: 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.