The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson
The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson
Martin Butler
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USDFour 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. The New Inn (1629) and A Tale of a Tub (1633) suggest a different Jonson, exploring new forms and writing from a profoundly modified perspective. In The New Inn, a romantic comedy overlaid with an atmospheric melancholy and ethical urgency, Jonson engages seriously for the first time with the conventions of non-satiric comedy. A Tale of a Tub, a riotous farce set in the early years of Queen Elizabeth, is now widely regarded as a nostalgic Jonsonian pastiche of Elizabethan popular drama.
In recent criticism, Jonson's later career has been undergoing considerable reassessment, and this edition is the first that attempts to take this new view of Jonson into account.
Product details
May 1989Paperback
9780521318426
556 pages
210 × 117 × 27 mm
0.596kg
4 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the series
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- THE ALCHEMIST Introductory note Text
- BARTHOLOMEW FAIR Introductory note Text
- THE NEW INN Introductory note Text
- A TALE OF A TUB Introductory note Text
- Notes
- Textual notes
- Additional notes.
