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Volpone

Volpone more books like this

by Ben Jonson

Volphone's reverential prayer to his heaps of gold launches the sharpest, funniest play about money and morals in the 17th century - a play still wickedly relevant on the same topics four centuries later. Ben Jonson's comedy depicts selfishness thinly veiled by sanctimonious speeches, lust and possessiveness poorly disguised as love and marriage, ...

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The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems more books like this

by Ben Johnson, Ben Jonson, George Parfitt (Editor)

One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined classical ideals with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and colloquial language. The "Complete Poems" contains all the volumes of poetry Jonson published in his lifetime - including "Epigrams", "The ...

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The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox; Epicene, or the Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair

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 in one volume. Volpone , which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene marked the end of a year long closure of the theatres because of an epidemic of the plague in 1609; its ...

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Alchemist

Alchemist more books like this

by Ben Jonson

Widely performed and studied, "The Alchemist" is one of the world's great comedies. It was first performed in 1610, and its success kept it in the repertory until the closing of the theatres. After the Restoration, it was one of the first plays to be revived and it has been produced with increasing frequency ever since. This edition is based on a ...

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Volpone and Other Plays

Volpone and Other Plays more books like this

by Ben Jonson

The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. "Volpone" portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in hope of an inheritance. "The Alchemist" ...

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Five plays.

Five plays. more books like this

by Ben Jonson

The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a playwright. The text is the modernized version of Herford and Simpson's edition (OUP 1925-52), with full annotation.

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Epicoene or the Silent Woman

Epicoene or the Silent Woman more books like this

by Ben Jonson

'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 ...

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Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets

Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets more books like this

by Ben Jonson, Hugh MacLean (Editor)

This volume offers an abundant and representative selection of the verse of Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets.

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Three Comedies: 4

Three Comedies: 4 more books like this

by Ben Jonson, Michael Jameison (Editor)

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The Devil is an Ass: And Other Plays

The Devil is an Ass: And Other Plays more books like this

by Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidney (Editor)

Poetaster Sejanus The Devil is an Ass New Inn Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the ...

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Bartholmew Fair more books like this

by Ben Jonson, George Hibbard (Editor)

Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival - offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their need for bodily delights and festival exuberance. The fair of St Bartholmew, held anually in Smithfield on 24 August, served Jonson as an opportunity to dissect a wide cross-section of Londoners and their ...

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Poetaster 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 ...

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Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques more books like this

by Ben Jonson, Richard Harp (Editor)

Contains three plays and three masques, all with expanded annotations. The book also contains a selection of Jonson's own comments on his writings, a section called "Contemporary Readers on Jonson", a section called "backgrounds and sources", and a collection of 12 critical essays.

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Selected Plays of Ben Johnson more books like this

by Johanna Procter (Editor), Ben Jonson, Martin Butler (Introduction by)

This volume contains three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays - Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609). Sejanus, an experimental tragedy written in the classical manner, was labelled a seditious work at the time of its first production and embroiled Jonson with the Privy Council. Volpone is the first of his mature ...

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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.

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Ben Jonson: Selected Masques more books like this

by Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor), Ben Jonson

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. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

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Eastward Ho! more books like this

by Ben Jonson, George Chapman

This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental, idealising London comedy presented at the amphitheatres in the ...

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Volpone or the Fox more books like this

by Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1605) is one of the most famous comedies of early modern Europe, translated into many languages and frequently revived on stage. This student edition has a carefully modernized text, aimed at undergraduates, theatrical producers and actors of the play. The introduction presents new material about Volpone's debt to the ...

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Epigrams; And, the Forest more books like this

by Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson is overshadowed as a dramatist by Shakespeare, his great contemporary. As a poet, however, he stands high. His polished urbanity, direct expression and classicism have been especially valued in modern times. T.S. Eliot says Jonson "incorporated his erudition into his sensibility", creatively assimilating Horace, Martial and Juvenal into ...

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The Devil Is an Ass more books like this

by Ben Johnson, Ben Jonson, Simon Trussler (Editor)

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Four English Comedies: 2of the 17th and 18th Centuries more books like this

by Ben Jonson, William Congreve, Oliver Goldsmith

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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 ...

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Ben Jonson: the complete masques more books like this

by Ben Jonson, Dr. Stephen Orgel (Editor)

The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. By using its peculiar viability as a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson resolved and transcended the satiric vision that was in many ways the ...

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The complete poetry of Ben Jonson more books like this

by Ben Jonson, William Bridges Hunter

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Ben Jonson more books like this

by Ian Donaldson (Editor), Ben Jonson

This edition presents the full texts of Jonson's two most popular comedies, Volpone and The Alchemist and of his commonplace book Discoveries, his Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden, and all his non-dramatic poetry.

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