Cynthia's Revels


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Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love


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"Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love" by Ben Jonson In the play, the goddess, Cynthia, has ordained a "solemn revels" in the valley of Gargaphie in Greece. The gods Cupid and Mercury appear, and they too start to argue. Mercury has awakened Echo, who weeps for Narcissus, and states that a drink from Narcissus's spring causes the drinkers to "Grow dotingly enamored of themselves." Asotus, a foolish spendthrift who longs to become a courtier and a master of fashion and manners, also drinks from the spring; emboldened by vanity and self-love, he challenges all comers to a competition of "court compliment." The competition is held, in four phases, and the courtiers are beaten.










Cynthia's Revels


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Cynthia's Revels, Or The Fountain of Self-Love By Ben Jonson "The Annotated Classic Edition"


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Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love," is a masterpiece By Ben Jonson. The play was part of the so-called Poetomachia, or War of the Theatres, between Jonson and playwrights John Marston and Thomas Dekker. The character Cynthia represented Queen Elizabeth, and the play was marked by violence and controversy in reflection of the queen's final reigning years. This work is culturally important, thus we have made it available as part of our commitment for preserving, protecting, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.




Cynthia's Revels


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Excerpt from Cynthia's Revels: Or, the Fountain of Self-Love It is hoped that the method of handling the text will find approval. This method, which, so far as I know, has never before been accorded to a folio text, is fully ex plained in the section dealing with the variations in the impressions of the folio. In recording variant readings of later editions, only such have been chosen as seemed clearly significant, a proceeding which will, perhaps, render the foot-notes to the text of genuine interest to the average reader. Certain difficulties have appeared which all my efforts have not enabled me to solve; these have been frankly stated in order that the attention of future students of the play may be focused upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




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