Sejanus his fall / Ben Jonson ; edited by Philip J. Ayres.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

Contributor:

Ayres, Philip.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Revels plays

The Revels plays

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 290 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, [1999]

Summary:

This Edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared.

The text is based on an extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier versions 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 levelled 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.

Contents:

1 The text 1

2 Date, and place in Jonson's career 9

3 Sources, influences and characterisation 10

4 Sejanus and the Privy Council 16

5 Critical assessment 22

6 Jonson's way with Roman history 28

7 Stage history 37

Sejanus 47

Appendices

A Longer passages from classical sources cited in the Commentary 264

B Collations of 1605 Quarto and 1616 Folio 269.

Notes:

Includes index.

"First published by Manchester University Press 1990."

ISBN:

0719057027

OCLC:

41073052