Author: Ben Jonson
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Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: New York : Norton
ISBN: 9780393090352
Category : Masques
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.

Author: Robert Martin Adams
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Languages : en
Pages : 502

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Author: Ben Jonson
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ISBN: 9780393976380
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Languages : en
Pages : 513

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Author: Ben Jonson
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Author: Richard Cave
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134680929
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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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 theory/practice divide by debating how Jonson's drama operates in performance. Ben Jonson and Theatre includes: * discussions with and between practitioners * essays on the staging of the plays * edited transcripts of interviews with contemporary practitioners The volume includes contributions from Joan Littlewood, Sam Mendes, John Nettles, Simon Russell Beale and Geoffrey Rush, Oscar-winning actor for Shine.

Author: Rosalind Miles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351998080
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Though he is one of the undisputed giants of English literature, Ben Jonson is known to most people only as the author of one or two masterly plays which regularly appear in the drama repertory. He is much less well-known for his whole oeuvre, which encompasses poetry, criticism, masque-making, and a lifetime of linguistic and lexicographical study. In this book, first published in 1990, the author presents a comprehensive critical study of the whole of Jonson’s output from his earliest beginnings through to the final achievement. Looking at every word he ever wrote, in drama, masque, poetry, philosophy and literary criticism, the author reveals an interesting and varied picture of Jonson. This title will be of interest to students of English literature and Renaissance drama.

Author: Richard Dutton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death. This new collection offers detailed readings of all the major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides significant insights into the court masques and the later plays which have only recently been rediscovered as genuinely engaging stage pieces.

Author: James Loxley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134596510
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300105384
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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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. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Inigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. This modernized version of Jonson’s masques is the most carefully edited and annotated text available; it is also the first one-volume edition to be published. It includes the faithful reprinting of Jonson’s own glosses and notes, translated and annotated, as well as explanatory notes which offer the most detailed critical commentary ever undertaken. In the Introduction, itself and important essay about the Renaissance stage, Mr. Orgel discusses Jonson’s development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones’ development of the illusionistic stage. Mr. Orgel is associate professor of English at the University of California in Berkeley.