The Complete Plays of Ben Jonson
Author : Ben Jonson
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Ben Jonson
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Ben Jonson
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Ben Jonson
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File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1942
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Author : Rosalind Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1351997939
The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light. Critics traditionally exalted Shakespeare, at Jonson’s expense. In this biography, first published in 1986, the author presents a full and accurate account of Jonson’s life in modern times. Rosalind Miles follows Jonson from his obscure beginnings to his burial in Westminster Abbey, as the first Poet Laureate, in 1637. Her Jonson is vivid and vigorous, equally alive in his life and in his work. This title will be of interest to students of history, English literature and Renaissance drama.
Author : Sean McEvoy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748629912
This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.The book integrates all of Jonson's major plays into the milieu of the turbulent years which produced them, and analyses the way each work examines the issues and challenges of those years: money, power, sex, crime, identity, gender, the theatre itself. It offers a lucid guide to the competing critical views of a playwright who is far more than the obverse of his friend and rival William Shakespeare, and it explains in detail how the undoubted power and energy of these plays in modern performance should be the touchstone of their quality to both critic and reader. The plays discussed include the early Comedies, the Roman Tragedies (Sejanus and Catiline), Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and The Devil is an Ass.
Author : Ben Jonson
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Page : 570 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 1816
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Author : David Riggs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674255879
Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the “great refiner” who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant images of folly and deceit. He was also a celebrated reprobate and an ambitious entrepreneur. David Riggs illuminates every facet of this extraordinary career, giving us the first major biography of Jonson in over sixty years. The story of Jonson's life provides a broad view of the literary procession in early modern England and the milieu in which Elizabethan drama was produced. Beginning as a journeyman actor, Jonson was soon a novice playwright; his first important play was staged in 1598, with Shakespeare in the cast. He was by turns the self-styled leader of a literary elite, a writer of court masques, the first dramatist to publish his own Works, a royal pensioner, and a genteel poet. As Jonson transformed himself from an artisan into a gentleman, his need to transcend his class origins led him to murder, to his notorious quarrels with Thomas Dekker, John Marston, and Inigo Jones, and to his lifelong rivalry with Shakespeare. Riggs traces the roots of Jonson's aggressiveness back to the turmoil of his childhood and adolescence. He offers new and convincing accounts of Jonson's latent hostility toward his bricklayer stepfather, his reckless marriage to Anne Lewis, and his conflicted relationships with his children. This vivid portrait synthesizes six decades of scholarship and new historical evidence. Sixty halftones beautifully illustrate the story and capture the spirit of the age. With Riggs' original interpretations of Jonson's masterpieces and lesser known works, Ben Jonson: A Life will prove the standard account of this complex man's life and works for many years to come.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 2024-04-17
Category : Poetry
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THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.
Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : New York : Norton
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Masques
ISBN : 9780393090352
This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.
Author : Felix Emmanuel Schelling
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
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ISBN : 9781436550581
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