Ben Jonson And Theatre
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| Author | : Sean McEvoy |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2008-04-17 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Elizabeth Schafer |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780415179805 |
Looks at the Jonson canon from the point of view of the theatre practitioner. It bridges the theory/practice divide by debating how his drama operates in performance and includes discussion with and between practitioners.
| Author | : Jonathan Haynes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 1992-08-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521419185 |
A detailed literary historical argument about the sources and consequences of Jonson's realism.
| Author | : Ben Jonson |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 740 |
| Release | : 2014-07-31 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1408179636 |
Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of Ben Jonson's plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N. Watson), Bartholmew Fair (edited by G.R. Hibbard) and Epicoene or The Silent Woman (edited by Roger Holdsworth). Today Jonson's works are widely considered to be amongst the best produced in his period. The new introduction by Robert N. Watson explores the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as providing a guide to the language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes gloss the text in greater detail, making this the ideal edition for study and classroom use.
| Author | : James Loxley |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Jonson |
| ISBN | : 0415222273 |
This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.
| Author | : J. Sanders |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1998-08-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0230389449 |
This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.
| Author | : Julie Sanders |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 391 |
| Release | : 2010-06-03 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0521895715 |
This collection highlights exciting new areas of research related to Ben Jonson, including book history, social history and cultural geography.
| Author | : Ben Jonson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 558 |
| Release | : 1989-05-26 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521318426 |
Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.
| Author | : Ben Jonson |
| Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2023-05-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
First performed in 1610, The Alchemist is one of Ben Jonson’s greatest comedies. Written for the King’s Men—the acting company to which Shakespeare belonged—it was first performed in Oxford because the playhouses in London were closed due to the plague. It was an immediate success and has remained a popular staple ever since. The play centers around a con man, his female accomplice, and a roguish butler who uses his master’s house to gull a series of victims out of their money and goods. Jonson uses the play to satirize as many people as he can—pompous lords, greedy commoners, and self-righteous Anabaptists alike—as his three con artists proceed to bilk everyone who comes to their door. They don multiple roles and weave elaborate tales to exploit their victims’ greed and amass a small fortune. But it all comes to a sudden, raucous end when the master unexpectedly returns to London and all the victims gather to try and reclaim their property.
| Author | : Ben Jonson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 1989-08-25 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521292481 |
A volume containing three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays: Sejanus, Volpone and Epicoene.
