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Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques: Texts of the Plays and ...
Ben JonsonThis collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist. This volume presents a new and fresh selection of Ben Jonson's dramatic works.
The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
PreviewAn accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
Ben Jonson
Claude J. SummersBen Jonson's comedies, tragedies, masques, poetry, and current reputation are discussed, with a brief description of his life and a bibliography of full length critical studies
The New Inn: By Ben Jonson
Ben JonsonThe spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical introduction, helpful appendices and a commentary which explains difficult or significant passages within the play.
Ben Jonson
Richard DuttonInterest 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.
Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship
Joseph LoewensteinIn this 2002 book, Ben Jonson is viewed within the context of the history of authorship and intellectual property.
Ben Jonson: Dramatist
Anne BartonAnne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist.
The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English ...
Jeanne McCarthydevice ̄ focused on the audience with a reading of Marston«s innovative authorship in relationship to Jonson, see Rebecca Yearling, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama: Satire and the Audience (New York: Palgrave ...
Epigrams and the Forest
Ben JonsonRelational Psychotherapy: A Primeradvances the understanding of this comprehensive, reliable model of treatment as it follows the trajectory of the therapy process from beginning to end.
Bartholmew Fair
Ben JonsonThis edition shows that the play can be read as a comprehensive refutation of puritanism and the London magistracy, both of whom were attacking the theatre (and the festive culture of which it was still part) as idolatrous, seditious and ...
Shakespeare and His Authors: Critical Perspectives on the ...
PreviewThe main point that Diana Price makes so very well is that until the Folio appeared and people like Ben Jonson and Leonard Digges mentioned the Stratford monument in the preface, there was no direct connection between the name of the ...
A Complete Concordance to the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A ...
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Volpone: A critical guide
PreviewRebecca Yearling is a teaching fellow at Bristol University. She completed her D. Phil. on the relationship between playwright and audience in the works of Ben Jonson and John Marston at Oxford University in 2006, and she is currently ...
Epicene, Or, The Silent Woman
Ben JonsonThis authoritative new edition of "Epicene" locates it precisely in the world of Jacobean wit, court, commerce sexual ambiguity and theatrical innovation which are its own subject-matter.
Sidney's Poetics: Imitating Creation
Michael Mack... of Literary Criticism: The Renaissance, ed. Glyn P. Norton (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, ), – ; and Travis Curtright, “Sidney's Defense of Poetry: Ethos and the Ideas,” Ben Jonson Journal ( ): .
Ben Jonson: A Life
David RiggsDavid 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: The Critical Heritage
PreviewThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance
David NorbrookIn this revised edition of his groundbreaking study, David Norbrook offers a clear account of the issues that engaged the passions of such leading figures as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, and John Milton, and provides ...
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