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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Methuen Drama
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Chapman::Ben Jonson::John Marston
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Publisher: Methuen Drama
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performedby the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. Thestory is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire ofcivic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental,idealising London comedy presented at the amphitheatres in the suburbs:Goldsmith Touchstone, an upright London citizen, has one modest and oneambitious daughter, one righteous and one disreputable apprentice;virtue is rewarded, ruthlessness comes to grief - and receives adrenching in the muddy Thames. The introduction to this editiondiscusses various methods of establishing authorship and highlights theirony of the collaborators' comic vision of contemporary London life.
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![The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies [The Shoemaker's Holiday, Every Man In His Humour, Eastward Ho!] (Oxford English Drama) under Jonson, Ben in The Books Store](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q7Z4FMPEL.jpg) |
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $3.23
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Dekker::Ben Jonson::Thomas Middleton::James Knowles::Eugene Giddens
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 822.05230803
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Publication Date: 2001-11-19
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Eastward Ho!, and Every Man in His Humour. The text is freshly edited using modern spelling. A critical introduction, a wide-ranging annotation, and an informative bibliography illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $106.00
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Manufacturer: Scolar Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Barbara Smith
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Publisher: Scolar Pr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.3
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Publication Date: 1995-09
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Reading Level: 132
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Description: This work looks at Jonson's treatment of women in his verse rather than in his plays. Previous critics have argued that Jonson was misogynistic, but this book provides evidence to the contrary, placing his depiction of women firmly within their historic/societal context.
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Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ben Jonson
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Publisher: Yale University Press
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Publication Date: 1969-09-10
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Reading Level: 557
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Description: The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. By using its peculiar viability as a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson resolved and transcended the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of Jonsonian drama. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Indigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. This modernized version of Jonson's masques is the most carefully edited and annotated text available; it is also the first one-volume edition to be published. It includes the faithful reprinting of Jonson's own glosses and notes, translated and annotated, as well as explanatory notes which offer the most detailed critical commentary ever undertaken. In the introduction, itself an important essay about the Renaissance stage, Mr. Orgel discusses Jonson's development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones' development of the illusionistic stage.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $10.37
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Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ben Jonson
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2001-02-24
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Bartholomew Fair is the climactic play of Ben Jonson's great comic period. Using the fair as a symbolic representation of religious, social, and political conflicts in Jacobean England, Jonson satirizes Puritans, fortune hunters, country bumpkins, and inept representatives of the justice system, along with sharpsters and con men who inhabit the fair. This edition is the first to use the findings of feminist scholarship in examining the play's concern with forced marriage, pregnancy, sexual commerce, and widowhood.
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Price: $10.95
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Sale: $10.58
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Manufacturer: Nick Hern Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ben Jonson
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Publisher: Nick Hern Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 1996-03-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: This edition of "The Devil is an Ass" (1616) aims to provide an insight into Jonson's life and work, the theatrical qualities of the play, its political background and its textual history. In his introduction, Peter Happe looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life, his interest in London, the theatrical setting of the play and its sources and analogues. There are critical and explanatory commentaries and a glossarial index. The play is seen in its historical and political context, by linking it with late medieval and Elizabethan plays, as well as with the Jacobean stage. The text is meticulously and reliably edited, with modernized spelling for today's reader. A commentary is provided to explain difficult or significant passages. The stage history of the play also includes very recent productions.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.84
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Manufacturer: Methuen Drama
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ben Jonson
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Publisher: Methuen Drama
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 808
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: This edition has been updated with a new introduction that examines Bartholomew Fair as a reading text, as a text for performance, and as a play that questions theater itself. There is a lively and comprehensively researched account of the play's historical, social, and theatrical context. Professor Leggatt has also updated the commentary and further reading section.
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Price: $29.50
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Sale: $22.87
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Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sean McEvoy
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 809
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Publication Date: 2008-09-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: 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. It traces the sources of that phenomenon to Jonson's vision of himself as a poet in the Roman tradition, and to his commitment to the sane and progressive ideals of humanism in a city where a rampant free-market and political authoritarianism made life conflicted, dangerous, and yet darkly, hilariously absurd. In his best plays, all of these forces are crafted into formal structures glittering with wit and provocation. Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist 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. Key Features *The book is an up-to-date introduction to all the major plays, covering the major criticism from a variety of critical perspectives *Ben Jonson's skill as a writer of brilliantly theatrical drama is emphasised throughout *Each play is securely and informatively placed in its literary and historical context *There is a lively account of how the plays have worked on stage in recent productions
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $20.75
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Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ben Jonson
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 822
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Publication Date: 1999-07-02
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's "historiography" and his treatment of sources. It provides an explanation for the charge of treason leveled at Jonson over Sejanus and for which he had to answer to the Privy Council. Explanatory notes to the text provide much new information to facilitate a properly informed reading of the play.
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Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ben Jonson
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 820
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Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: This edition breaks with the usual practice by presenting the 1601 quarto version of Ben Jonson's play, set in Florence, instead of the revised 1616 version, set in London. Robert S. Miola presents a meticulously edited and modernized version of the play as originally acted by the Lord Chamberlain's Men (with Shakespeare in the cast) in 1598. Miola explores the relevance of the Italian setting, particularly the potent, variegated, and fascinating body of myth and legend that constituted Italy for English audiences in 1598. The editor also illuminates the dramatic context of the play, while paying detailed attention to the social, political, and religious contexts.
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