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1	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) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
2	Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare more books like this by John S Mebane add to wishlist 'John Mebane examines the many component parts of Renaissance occultism ...[and] offers an inclusive, deeply researched overview of the subject' - "London Review of Books". "An excellent discussion of the crosscurrents of Renaissance philosophies of the occult and their impact upon Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare. [Mebane's] review of Hermetic, ... see all copies from $19.76! new only from $26.63! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Social Relations of Jonson's Theatre more books like this by Jonathan Haynes add to wishlist The author considers the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson a realist and an acute observer of the transformation from feudalism to capitalism with many of the forms and purposes of Jonson's realism resulting from the social dynamics of the London theater audience. Haynes presents a detailed literary historical argument about the sources and ... see all copies from $22.49! new only from $76.27!
4	Shakespeare and the Poets' War more books like this by Professor James Bednarz add to wishlist This study seeks to demonstrate how the "Poets' Wars," an ongoing argument between Jonson, Shakespeare, Marston, and other Elizabethan dramatists, helped shape the vision of each writer involved. see all copies from $2.51! new only from $4.80! \| first editions
5	An authenticated contemporary portrait of Shakespeare more books like this by Tracy Kingman add to wishlist see all copies from $5.84! new only from $28.60! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Every Man in His Humour more books like this by Ben Johnson, Robert S Miola (Editor) add to wishlist This edition breaks with usual practice by presenting the 1601 quarto version of Jonson's play, set in Florence, instead of the revised 1616 version, set in London. Robert S. Miola presents a meticulously edited and modernized version of the play as originally acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Men (with Shakespeare in the cast) in 1598. Miola has ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $8.97! \| SVS
7	Ben Jonson: Dramatist more books like this by Anne Barton add to wishlist Since the Romantic period, Jonson has been an author more respected than read. Frequently compared with Shakespeare, he usually suffers unfairly from the comparison. In this book Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays which completely re-evaluates Jonson as a dramatist. Describing in detail his experimentation with different comic styles and his ... see all copies from $13.63! new only from $64.30! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ben Jonson's Poesis: A Literary Dialectic of Ideal & History more books like this by Jongsook Lee add to wishlist see all copies from $2.70! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Ben Jonson more books like this by John Addington Symonds add to wishlist CONTENTS Birth and Apprenticeship First Period of Manhood Jonson's Dramatic Style The Masterpieces Masques at Court and Lyrics Second Period of Manhood Old Age see all copies from $17.06! new only from $17.81! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Fury of Men's Gullets: Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal more books like this by Bruce Thomas Boehrer add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| first editions
11	Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques more books like this by Ben Jonson, Richard Harp (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $5.75! new only from $16.24! \| SVS
12 view cover	Volpone(oop) more books like this by Harold Bloom add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $45.39! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Ben Jonson: A Life more books like this by David Riggs add to wishlist see all copies from $4.46! new only from $35.50! \| SVS
14 view cover	Ben Jonson: To the First Folio more books like this by Richard Dutton add to wishlist This book offers a critical assessment of the career of one of the most formidable figures of English literature, the most influential poet and dramatist of the early seventeenth century. Richard Dutton focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career, the 1616 folio collection of his works with which he crowned his growing reputation as a man ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $23.61! \| SVS
15 view cover	Music in the Theatre of Ben Johnson more books like this by Mary Chan add to wishlist see all copies from $24.14! new only from $173.23! \| SVS
16 view cover	Ben Jonson: A Sourcebook more books like this by James Loxley add to wishlist Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist. Very few students of literature or drama would not encounter Volpone or Bartholomew Fair in the course of their studies, and there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Epicoene , or the Silent Women amongst gender theorists. This volume offers the ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Heirs of Donne and Jonson more books like this by Joseph H Summers add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	Ben Jonson and the Theatre: Performance, Practice, and Theory more books like this by Richard Cave (Editor), Elizabeth Schafer (Editor), Brian Woolland (Editor) add to wishlist Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre practitioner as well as the teacher. Reflecting the increasing interest in the wider field of Renaissance drama, this book bridges the divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance. Ben Jonson and Theatre includes: ... see all copies from $19.14! new only from $47.34! \| SVS
19 view cover	Jonson Shakespeare & Early Mod more books like this by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton add to wishlist In this wide-ranging and original study, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton examines how Virgil - the poet as well as his texts - was mediated in early modern England. She analyses what was at stake in the reproduction of these mediations of Virgil, focusing specifically on the works of Ben Jonson and on one of Shakespeare's most resonantly Virgilian plays, ... see all copies from $44.70! new only from $46.30! \| SVS
20 view cover	Ben Jonson's London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary more books like this by Fran C Chalfant add to wishlist Ben Jonson was a Londoner. He lived there from infancy, left for only brief periods of travel, and used various locales in or near London as the settings for eleven of his seventeen plays. "Ben Jonson's London" opens with a discussion of the purpose, scope, and success of Jonson's use of London settings as Placenames. Chalfant demonstrates that ... see all copies from $17.09! new only from $22.58! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Jonson and the comic truth more books like this by John Jacob Enck add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Ben Jonson, Volpone and the Gunpowder Plot more books like this by Richard Dutton add to wishlist Ben Jonson's Volpone is the most widely taught and commonly performed English Renaissance play outside of Shakespeare. However, the dramatic circumstances of its writing are little known. Jonson wrote the play very shortly after the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, an event in which he was personally involved. This book argues that the play alludes to the ... see all copies from $70.25! new only from $70.25!
23	The sons of Ben; Jonsonian comedy in Caroline England. more books like this by Joe Lee Davis add to wishlist see all copies from $4.77! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship more books like this by Joseph Loewenstein, Cambridge University Press (Creator) add to wishlist What is the history of authorship, of invention, of intellectual property? Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a key phase of the bibliographical ego, a specifically Early Modern form of authorial identification with printed writing. In the work of many playwrights and non-dramatic writers - and especially that ... see all copies from $40.42! new only from $40.42! \| SVS
25	A Ben Jonson companion more books like this by D Heyward Brock add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS

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