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Book Synopsis Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist by : Sean McEvoy
Download or read book Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist written by Sean McEvoy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Volpone; Or, The Fox by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book Volpone; Or, The Fox written by Ben Jonson and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volpone; Or, The Fox Ben Jonson - Volpone ([volpone], Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 16051606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.
Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Anne Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist.
Book Synopsis The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1 by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1 written by Ben Jonson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-25 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume containing three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays: Sejanus, Volpone and Epicoene.
Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Rosalind Miles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Every Man out of His Humour by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book Every Man out of His Humour written by Ben Jonson and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Man out of His Humour Ben Jonson - "Jonson's *Every Man Out of His Humour* is a comical satire about envy and aspiration among the ambitious middle classes, who seek happiness in fame and material fortune. This first critical edition of the play conveys early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display through historical contexts. The book offers an intriguing look at the course of urban comedy, and a wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of the Elizabethan period.Ben Jonson's career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in the "Admiral's Men", and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson had a knack for absurdity and hypocrisy, a trait that made him immensely popular in the 17th century Renaissance period. It is known that Shakespeare's company produced several of Jonson's plays, Shakespeare himself appearing in "Every Man in His Humour" (1598). The play was Jonson's first major success, written in the style of "humour plays", a genre of comedy originated by George Chapman. In it, Jonson targets some of his favorite topics for satire: education, love, poetry, and social classes. As each major character represents a different issue, the play transforms into a depiction of everyday Renaissance life, and a scathing social commentary on the problems that plagued it.
Book Synopsis The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2 by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 2 written by Ben Jonson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-26 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.
Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Richard Dutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Ben Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death. This new collection offers detailed readings of all the major plays - Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair - and the poems. It also provides significant insights into the court masques and the later plays which have only recently been rediscovered as genuinely engaging stage pieces.
Download or read book The Alchemist written by Ben Jonson and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alchemist Ben Jonson - The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. It is generally considered Jonsons best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge believed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The plays clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage, apart from a period of neglect during the Victorian era.
Book Synopsis Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems written by Ben Jonson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems" by Ben Jonson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Every Man in His Humour by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all of Jonson's city comedies, this play - here given in the 1616 Folio version, in which Jonson rewrote and set it in England, not Italy - is a kind of dramatised Do-It-Yourself kit on how to bluff one's way in Elizabethan London. Although Roman New Comedy, in which a crafty slave helps a wild youngster to marry the girl of his choice against his father's wishes, supplies Jonson with his basic plot, the world that he presents here is thoroughly contemporary and mundane. The characters' 'humours' - their driving obsessions - may vary, but all of them strive to represent something greater, nobler, cleverer than their real selves. The joke of the play, this editor suggests, is 'finally on all of us who unconsciously equate the universe with a story in which we play the hero'.
Book Synopsis The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson by : James Loxley
Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson written by James Loxley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Ben Jonson written by James Loxley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Poetaster, Or, His Arraignment by : Ben Jonson
Download or read book Poetaster, Or, His Arraignment written by Ben Jonson and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. His career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in the "Admiral's Men," and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson had a knack for absurdity and hypocrisy, a trait that made him immensely popular in the 17th century Renaissance period. From about 1599-1601, a rivalry emerged between Jonson and the playwrights John Marston and Thomas Dekker dubbed Poetomachia, or War of the Theatres. Scholars agree that "The Poetaster, or His Arrangement," portrays all three playwrights in the characters of Horace, as Jonson, Crispinus as Marston, and Demetrius Fannius as Dekker. The term poetaster refers to a poet of inferior verse, so it is no surprise that the play is a scathing attack on the talent and artistry of Jonson's rivals.
Download or read book Sejanus, His Fall written by Ben Jonson and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. He worked shortly as an actor in "The Admiral's Men," but soon moved on to writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson's work was primarily in comedies for the public theatres, very few of his tragedies have survived. "Sejanus, His Fall," is the earliest known attempt by the playwright at tragedy, and although the play is less popular than his comedic works, it is a valuable look at Jonson's view of the repressive totalitarian state. Based on a tragedy about Lucius Aerlius Seianus and the Roman emperor Tiberius, the play does not conform to the archetype of classical tragedy; it spans several months and various locales, and graphically violent scenes are delivered on stage. It has been speculated that the story of the tyrannical emperor and the villainous Sejanus represents James I and his corrupt court.
Book Synopsis Ben Jonson in Context by : Julie Sanders
Download or read book Ben Jonson in Context written by Julie Sanders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection highlights exciting new areas of research related to Ben Jonson, including book history, social history and cultural geography.
Download or read book A Tale of the Tub written by Ben Jonson and published by Digireads.com Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. His career began in 1597 when he held a fixed engagement in the "Admiral's Men," and although he was unsuccessful as an actor, his literary talent was apparent and he began writing original plays for the troupe. Jonson had a knack for absurdity and hypocrisy, a trait that made him immensely popular in the 17th century Renaissance period. However, his reputation diminished somewhat in the Romantic era, when he began to be unfairly compared to Shakespeare. "A Tale of a Tub" was the last of Jonson's plays to be staged during his lifetime. It is set on Valentine's Day, when the young Audrey Turfe is being chased by four different suitors. Audrey's father, the constable, is drawn into the disorder that ensues as each suitor attempts to sabotage the others' chances.
