|
Showing 1 - 25 of
475 matches in All Departments
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."
This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the
works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614,
and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on
Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the
audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on
the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of
characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern
London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of
realism.
Brief introductions to each play discuss the local settings,
sources, theatre history and further readings. The general
introduction includes a biography of Jonson, a chronology of the
plays and masques, and separate essays on each play, dealing
particularly with Jonson's satirical treatments of trends and shams
of the day, whether political, social, commercial, or
spiritual.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Ben
Jonson's comedy, one of the finest of the Jacobean era. Volpone is
a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the cunning
pursuit of wealth more than money itself. Pretending to be mortally
ill, he watches as his greedy neighbours swarm around him with
expensive gifts in the hope of inheriting his fortune. Volpone was
premiered by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre, London, in 1606.
This edition of Volpone, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics
series, is edited by R.B.Parker, and introduced by Colin Counsell.
Originally published in 1928, this book presents the text of The
Alchemist by Ben Jonson. An editorial introduction is included,
along with extensive notes. Spelling and punctuation are
occasionally modernised and a few passages are omitted, but aside
from this the text of William Gifford's 1816 edition is followed.
This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in English
theatre and early modern literature.
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the
gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice
in Lovewit's house they promise miraculous services that cost their
customers dear. Everything goes swimmingly, until Lovewit returns
and the three turn against each other. Ben Jonson's classic comedy
The Alchemist was first performed by the King's Men in 1610. This
edition of the play in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is
edited by Simon Trussler, with an introduction by Colin Counsell.
Originally published in 1929 as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts
series, this volume contains Ben Jonson's incomplete play The Sad
Shepherd, or A Tale of Robin Hood. The play first appeared in the
second volume of Jonson's works in 1641 and the text for this
edition was largely based on that version, with some modernisation
of spelling and punctuation. A short editorial introduction is also
included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in
Jonson and early-modern drama.
First published in 1905, this edition of Ben Jonson's poetic
collection Underwoods provides the original text from 1640 in its
totality. This heterogeneous collection is notable for containing
'A Celebration of Charis', Jonson's most extended effort at love
poetry, together with numerous other points of interest.
Beautifully presented, this edition will be of value to anyone with
an interest in Jonson's poetry and Renaissance literature in
general.
The author's highly individualized treatment of names, verb forms and punctuation is preserved in this volume of three of his greatest plays--Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609).
This volume brings together four of Ben Jonson's plays, two of his
major works - The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and
two from his later oeuvre: The New Inn (1629) and A Tale of a Tub
(1633). The Alchemist is a major satire on folly and greed,
brilliantly plotted and dazzling in its use of language.
Bartholomew Fair, possibly Jonson's greatest achievement, reveals a
panoramic depiction of London society. The New Inn and A Tale of a
Tub suggest a different Jonson, exploring new forms and writing
from a profoundly modified perspective. In The New Inn, a romantic
comedy overlaid with an atmospheric melancholy and an ethical
urgency, Jonson engages seriously for the first time with the
conventions of non-satiric comedy. A Tale of a Tub, a riotous farce
set in the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, is now
widely regarded as a nostalgic Jonsonian pastiche of Elizabethan
popular drama. In recent criticism, Jonson's later career has been
undergoing considerable reassessment, and this edition is the first
that attempts to take this new view of Jonson into account. Dr
Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and
survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of
Jonsonian punctuation.
Ben Jonson (1572-1637), actor, playwright, satirist, and lyric
poet, studied under William Camden at Westminster, worked as a
bricklayer, served in the army, and was imprisoned twice--once for
sedition and once for murder. Epicoene: or, The Silent Woman (1609)
is considered one of his greatest comedies, upon which, along with
Volpone (1607), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614),
his reputation rests. At his death, he was regarded as the leading
man of letters in England, and was a major influence on the
Cavalier poets, including Robert Herrick, Sir John Suckling, Thomas
Carew, and Richard Lovelace. Lester A. Beaurline was professor of
English at the University of Virginia. He was an editor of Studies
in Bibliography, the works of John Suckling, and (with Fredson
Bowers) the plays of Ben Jonson.
The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th
century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in
the 21st. The full play text is accompanied by incisive commentary
notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone's
satire. The introduction provides a firm grounding in the play's
social and literary contexts, demonstrates how careful
close-reading can expand your enjoyment of the comedy, shows the
relevance of Jonson's critique to our modern economic systems, and
provides a clear picture of how the main relationships in the play
function on the page and stage. Supplemented by a plot summary and
annotated bibliography, it is ideal for students of Jonson, city
comedy and early modern drama.
The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of
Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by
the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed
due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely accomplished
satirical farce about people's diverse dreams of self-refinement:
they all want to transform themselves into something nobler,
richer, more powerful, more virile, just as base metal was supposed
to be transformed into gold in the alchemical process. During their
master's absence from the house, the con-artists Face, Subtle and
Doll Common dupe a series of 'customers' whose greed leads them to
believe in the existence of the fabled Philosopher's Stone. As
their equipment boils over and blows up in the offstage kitchen, so
their plot heats up and is exploded by the sceptical Surly and the
arrival of their master - who quietly pockets their proceeds and
marries the rich widow to boot. The lively introduction focuses on
the play as a comedy about swindlers and characters on the margins
of society. It highlights Jonson's cratft as a dramatist and his
masterful use of language, building into the play all actors and
directors need to know about its characters and action. With
helpful on-page commentary notes, this student edition also
discusses the play in its theatrical and historical context and
traces its connections to modern theatre, bringing its farcical
comedy vividly to life.
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's
complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and
recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It provides a clear
sense of the shape, scale and variety of the entire Jonsonian
canon, including plays, court masques and entertainments, poems,
prose works and letters. Each text, edited in modern spelling, is
accompanied by an introduction containing essential information
about its date, sources and interpretation, and is supported by
detailed on-page commentary and collation. The Edition presents
Jonson's texts in a form which combines thoroughness of explanation
with readability. The Edition as a whole explicates Jonson's works
fully in the light of modern scholarship, making them accessible to
students, scholars, theatrical practitioners and anyone wishing to
explore the work of Shakespeare's great contemporary. For further
information and free access to The Cambridge Edition of the Works
of Ben Jonson Online, please visit
https://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/benjonson/
'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord'
This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige
for more than a century after its first performance: for John
Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure
unmixed comedy in any language'. Its title signals Jonson's satiric
and complex concern with gender: the play asks not only 'what
should a man do?', but how should men and women behave, both as fit
examples of their sex, and to one another? The characters furnish a
cross-section of wrong answers, enabling Jonson to create riotous
entertainment out of lack, loss and disharmony, to the point of
denying the straightfowardly festive conclusion which audiences at
comedies normally expect. Much of the comic vitality arises from a
degeneration of language, which Jonson called 'the instrument of
society', into empty chatter or furious abuse, and from a plot
which is a series of lies and betrayals (the hero lies to everyone
and Jonson lies to the audience). The central figure is a man named
Morose, who hates noise yet lives in the centre of London, and who,
because of his decision to marry a woman he supposes to be silent,
exposes himself to a fantastic cacophony of voices, male, female
and - epicene.
This student edition contains a lengthy Introduction with
background on the author, date and sources, theme, critical
interpretation and stage history.
|
Volpone
Ben Jonson
|
R985
Discovery Miles 9 850
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
Volpone
Ben Jonson
|
R700
Discovery Miles 7 000
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
The Poetaster
Ben Jonson
|
R917
Discovery Miles 9 170
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
The Poetaster
Ben Jonson
|
R604
Discovery Miles 6 040
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R49
Discovery Miles 490
|