Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (Paperback, Second Edition)

Also included are three masques: Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemist at Court, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and new to the Second Edition The Masque of Blackness, Jonson's first masque and one that deals with issues of interest to contemporary culture. Each text includes expanded annotations. Jonson on His Work collects statements by the author on plays and on poetry taken from some of the plays, from Discoveries, and from Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. Contemporary Readers on Jonson includes tributes and poems about the author and his work. A new section "Backgrounds and Sources" includes selections from texts that helped shaped the dramatist's vision. Criticism includes twelve essays nine of them new to the Second Edition by Jonas A. Barish, Robert C. Evans, Anne Barton, John Dryden, Robert Watson, Edward B. Partridge, Ian Donaldson, Richard Harp, D. J. Gordon, Stephen Orgel, John Mulryan, and Leah S. Marcus."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Norton Critical Editions, 0
Release date:	July 2001
First published:	March 2001
Authors:	Ben Jonson
Editors:	Richard L. Harp
Dimensions:	213 x 132 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	536
Edition:	Second Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-97638-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General
LSN:	0-393-97638-6
Barcode:	9780393976380

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