Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist / / Sean McEvoy.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623020');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 p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Renaissance Dramas and Dramatists : RDD
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 5 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations used
  • Illustrations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction
  • 1 Life and Culture
  • 2 The Early Comedies (1597-1601)
  • 3 The Roman Tragedies – Sejanus (1603) and Catiline (1611)
  • 4 Volpone, or The Fox (1605-6)
  • 5 Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609)
  • 6 The Alchemist (1610)
  • 7 Bartholomew Fair (1614)
  • 8 The Devil is an Ass (1616)
  • 9 The Late Plays (1626-34)
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • Index