Libros de Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson - Five Plays

• The five plays in this volume, Sejanus, The Alchemist, Volpone, Every Man in his Humour, and Bartholomew Fair - fairly represent the range and variety of Jonson’s work as a playwright. The texts have been modernized from authoritative...

Ben Jonson - Plays - Complete Collection - Vol I

• This edition of Ben Jonson’s Plays is complete in two volumes. This is Volume One. Contents: Vol 1: Cynthia’s Revels (1600) Epicoene (1609) Every Man in His Humour, first version (1598) second version (1601) Every Man...

Ben Jonson

• 192 páginas
• Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court...

Volpone And Other Plays

• 496 páginas
• The three plays in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with humour, satire and acute observations. In

Bartholomew Fair

• 160 páginas
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The Magnetic Lady

• This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonsons The Magnetic Lady written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the context...

Alchemist

Every Man Out Of His Humour

• Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume’s introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with...

Epicene, Or The Silent Woman

• 356 páginas
• States that 'Epicene' is one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. This book analyzed the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-known Whitefriars Theatre. It...

Sejanus, His Fall

• This edition of Jonson’s great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text."...

Volpone

• 192 páginas
• Volpone tells of a magnifico of Venice with no wife or children to whom to leave his fortune. The prospect of such wealth invites to his house an assortment of greedy hopefuls, ready to prostitute any ideals in the pursuit of money. Volpone's parasite,...

Poetaster

• Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus’ wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice,...

The Devil Is An Ass

• 256 páginas
• This edition contains an introduction which looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. It also includes critical and explanatory commentaries...

Selected Plays Of Ben Johnson

• This volume contains three of Ben Jonson’s greatest plays--Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609).

The Selected Plays Of Ben Jonson

• Four of Ben Jonson's plays are examined in this volume: two are his major works and two from his..

The Staple Of News

• Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new £9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now...

The New Inn

• The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson’s plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. The spelling has been modernised and the text updated and corrected for this paperback edition. There is also a critical...

Eastward Ho

• Scholarly and detailed annotations. Provides a thorough sense of the plays background and content. Full and comprehensive introduction.

Selected Masques

• 392 páginas
• Renaissance court masques involved music, dance, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects. The form was transformed by Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. Includes Jonson's own notes and glosses, explanatory notes, and critical commentary....

Ben Jonson

• 572 páginas
• The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and..