books by Ben Jonson

books by Ben Jonson

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Ben Jonson

Sejanus, His Fall (The Revels Plays)
Ben Jonson

Manchester University Press, 1999

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 ...

Five Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

Ben Jonson

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Not Appropriate for Undergraduate Classrooms
The advantages of this collection are the number of plays it includes and its low price. Its grave disadvantage is the notes, which are insufficient for undergraduate classrooms, at least in the U.S. They're hit-or-miss. Sometimes they give you information you ...

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!] ...
Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

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 ...

Volpone and The Alchemist (Thrift Edition)
Ben Jonson

Dover Publications, 2004

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 ...

The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Ben Jonson

Penguin Classics, 1988

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 ...

Epicoene (New Mermaids)

Methuen Drama, 2007

Violence! Cross-dressing! Impotence!
All are to be found in "Epicoene," an extremely funny if slightly dark Ben Jonson play. I don't want to give much of a summary because I don't want to reveal any plot twists, but it begins with the common Renaissance theme of men looking for wives . . . and chaos ...

Volpone and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Ben Jonson

Penguin Classics, 2004

Each version and edition reveals new facets
I came upon this play and Ben Jonson by the back door. I was watching a movie titled "The Honey Pot" with Rex Harrison. His character Cecil Fox after observing this play used the outline for his own purposes. So naturally I have to read the play to see what the movie ...

Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (Second Edition)
Ben Jonson

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000

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 to ...

The Alchemist (New Mermaids)

Ben Jonson

Methuen Drama, 2007

Great Introduction to Ben Jonson's Comedies
I recently read the early 17th century comedy "Volpone", my first introduction to Ben Jonson. I was surprised by how well Jonson's humor had traveled through 400 years of cultural change. I did have difficulty with Jonson's dedication (several pages), the introductory ...

Volpone (New Mermaids)

Ben Jonson

Methuen Drama, 2007

Controversial, irreverent and still standing!
This famous adaptation of Ben Johnson is terrific and still modern in its whole conception, this is a characteristic seal of the masterpieces. Aided by his loyal server Mosca. Volpone makes his friend to believe is dying and convinces to every one of his greedy friends ...

Eastward Ho! (New Mermaids)
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, ...

Methuen Drama, 2007

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 ...

Bartholmew Fair, 2nd Edition (New Mermaids)
Ben Jonson

Methuen Drama, 2007

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 ...

The Devil Is an Ass: And Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)

Ben Jonson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

Excellent Collection of Ben Jonson's Lesser Known Plays
This excellent Oxford World's Classics collection is unusual in that none of these plays by Ben Jonson were well-received when first performed, and furthermore, have seldom been staged until recent years. Nonetheless, all four plays - Poetaster, Sejanus his Fall, The ...

The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Selected Plays By...Marston, Heywood, Beaumont, ...
John Lyly, George Peele, ...

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1911

Bartholomew Fair (Revels Plays)

Ben Jonson

Methuen young books, 1965

Good Footnotes Can Save the Day, or the Play
Ben Jonson requires effort. His allusions to topical events tend to be obscure today, his penchant for having some characters quote Latin phrases can be a barrier (some characters misquote Latin, and we, the alert audience, are supposed to chuckle), and his use of ...