Offers the text of the famous satirical comedy about a fox by the English writer

Product Description: Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Jonson's plays. This new edition is based on a thorough re-examination of the earliest texts. It discusses its composition at a critical time in Jonson's life and career, established as the principal writer of entertainments of the court; his relationships with ambitious wits such as John Donne, Sir Edward Herbert, and Nathan Field are examined as models for the principal characters...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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 substance of Jonsonian drama...read more

Product Description: 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. Because its flexibility provided a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson was able to resolve and transcend the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of his drama...read more

Product Description: New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:• The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards• Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings• Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play• Critical, contextual and staging notes• Photographs of productions where applicable• A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading...read more

Product Description: When Orestilla By Her Bearing Well These My Retirements, And Stolne Times For Thought Shall Give Their Effects Leaue To Call Her Queene Of All The World, In Place Of Humbled Rome.

Product Description: Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale ben Jonson edition.

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Product Description: Publisher: London : J.M Dent

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This collection of poems demonstrates Jonson's polished urbanity, direct expression, and classicism, and reveals why these traits have been especially valued in modern times. Carefully structured poem sequences display Jonson's command of poetic form and involve the reader in evaluating a range of shifting perspectives...read more

Product Description: In one of his last plays, Jonson atypically wrote of love, which is also a story of family reunion and a typical Jonsonian banquet of humors. Hattaway characterizes the play as a tribute to Shakespeare, and as a belated recognition that the fantasies of romance contain profound truths...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents the complete poems of the seventeenth century dramatist, poet, and wit. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Four of Ben Jonson's plays are examined in this volume: two are his major works and two from his later oeuvre. The Alchemist (1610) is a major satire on folly and greed, brilliantly plotted and dazzling in its use of language. Bartholomew Fair (1614), possibly Jonson's greatest achievement, reveals a panoramic depiction of London society...read more

Product Description: This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies: Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair.

Product Description: 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 the seventeenth century, and the introduction, notes, and glossary further bring to life these timeless comedies for the modern reader...read more

Product Description: Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is by turns a savage satirist of his age, an admirer of rural order and hospitality, a lyricist, a court flatterer and a religious poet. He perfected a plain style that has influenced writers down to present...read more

Product Description: This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of realism...read more

Product Description: An examination of four comedies by Ben Jonson: "Volpone, or The Fox", "Epicoene, or The Silent Woman", "The Alchemist" and "Bartholomew Fair". (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)