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Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist (Paperback)
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Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist (Paperback)
Series: Renaissance Dramatists
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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. It
traces the sources of that phenomenon to Jonson's vision of himself
as a poet in the Roman tradition, and to his commitment to the sane
and progressive ideals of humanism in a city where a rampant
free-market and political authoritarianism made life conflicted,
dangerous, and yet darkly, hilariously absurd. In his best plays,
all of these forces are crafted into formal structures glittering
with wit and provocation. Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
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. Key Features *The book is an up-to-date introduction to all
the major plays, covering the major criticism from a variety of
critical perspectives *Ben Jonson's skill as a writer of
brilliantly theatrical drama is emphasised throughout *Each play is
securely and informatively placed in its literary and historical
context *There is a lively account of how the plays have worked on
stage in recent productions
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