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1	Alchemist more books like this by Ben Jonson Recently revived at the National Theatre with Simon Callow in the title role, Jonson's comic masterpiece moves quickly through humorous paths of deception perpetrated by the scheming Alchemist and those who seek to reveal him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.05! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Volpone more books like this by Ben Jonson Great Elizabethan satire concerns a wealthy, lecherous old man who feigns a mortal illness to solicit bribes from greedy acquaintances. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bartholomew Fair more books like this by Ben Jonson Jonson's most ambitious and flamboyant comedy, often considered the culmination of his career. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair more books like this by Ben Jonson, Gordon Campbell (Editor) This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. The texts of these plays have all been newly edited for this volume, and are presented with modernized spelling. Stage directions have been added to help actors and directors reconstruct the play the way it would have been performed in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Volpone or the Fox more books like this by Ben Jonson This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of Jonson's career at the time of writing and introduces new material on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets: Authoritative Texts, Criticism more books like this by Ben Jonson, Hugh MacLean (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.63! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies more books like this by Thomas Dekker, Professor George Chapman, Ben Jonson This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Eastward Ho!, and Every Man in His Humour. The text is freshly edited using modern ... see all copies from $3.23! new only from $3.23! \| SVS
8	Every Man in His Humour more books like this by Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A good friend of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone and The Alchemist which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Epicoene or the Silent Woman more books like this by Ben Jonson This 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.75! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Volpone and The Alchemist more books like this by Ben Jonson These much-studied and frequently performed comedies by the great Elizabethan playwright satirize the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension that Jonson saw rampant in 17h-century London society. Both plays feature colorful characters, ingenious plotting, biting wit, and sharp insight into human nature. This is the only edition to include ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.63!
11 view cover	Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques more books like this by Ben Jonson, Richard Harp (Editor) This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone , Epicoene , and The Alchemist . 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 ... see all copies from $6.93! new only from $16.75! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Five plays. more books like this by Ben Jonson The five plays in this collection represent the complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. 'Every Man In His Humor', represents the high point of the 'humors' comedy with which Jonson is always associated. 'Sejanus', is an experiment in tragedy on classical principles. 'Volpone' and 'The Alchemist' are Jonsons most distinctive comedies set among ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.68! \| SVS
13 view cover	Three Comedies: 4 more books like this by Ben Jonson, Michael Jameison (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.94! \| signed copies \| SVS
14 view cover	Ben Jonson more books like this by Ben Jonson, Thom Gunn This edition includes the complete text of two of Johnson's poetic collections, the Epigrams and The Forest, along with a generous selection from The Underwood and a group of Miscellaneous Poems. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Works of Ben Jonson with Notes, Critical and Explanatory and a Biographical Memoir V3 more books like this by Ben Jonson, William Gifford see all copies from $17.10! new only from $27.91! \| SVS
16 view cover	Bartholmew Fair more books like this by Ben Jonson, George Hibbard (Editor) This edition has been updated with a new introduction that examines Bartholomew Fair as a reading text, as a text for performance, and as a play that questions theater itself. There is a lively and comprehensively researched account of the play's historical, social, and theatrical context. Professor Leggatt has also updated the commentary and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.06! \| first editions
17 view cover	Sejanus His Fall more books like this by Ben Jonson 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." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's "historiography" and his treatment of sources. It ... see all copies from $3.59! new only from $14.97! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Every man in his humor more books like this by Ben Jonson Wrote Ben Johnson: There are no doubt a supercilious race in the world who will esteem all office done you in this kind an injury; so solemn a vice it is with them to use the authority of their ignorance to the crying down of Poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| SVS
19 view cover	Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques: Texts of the Plays and Masques, Jonson on His Work, Contemporary Readers on Jonson, Criticism more books like this by Ben Jonson This volume presents a new and fresh selection of Ben Jonson's dramatic works. It includes the three greatest and most accessible comedies - 'Volpone' (1606), 'Epicoene' (1609), and 'The Alchemist' (1610) - along with the seldom - reprinted unfinished pastoral comedy 'The Sad Shephard' (1640); in the editor's words, this play 'complements the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.50!
20	The poems of Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson, Robert Bell see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.25! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Sejanus more books like this by Ben Jonson Not these are safe, where nothing is.'' Yourselfe, While thus you stand but by me, are not safe. Was Silius safe? or the good Sosia safe? Or was my Neice, deare Claudia Pulchra safe? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Complete Poems more books like this by Ben Johnson, Ben Jonson, George Parfitt (Editor) see all copies from $2.21! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
23 view cover	Ben Jonson: Sejanus more books like this by Ben Jonson, Jonas A Barish (Editor), Alvin Kerman (Editor) Complete text of play first performed in 1603. Modernized English text, explanatory and critical notes, and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson Edition. see all copies from $5.82! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
24	The complete poetry of Ben Jonson more books like this by Ben Jonson, William Bridges Hunter see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Epicoene more books like this by Ben Jonson Short excerpt: It will get you the dangerous name of a poet in town sir; besides me a perfect deal of ill-will at the mansion you wot of whose lady is the argument of it; where now I am the welcomest thing under a man that comes there. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $13.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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