Ben Jonson's plays and masques : texts of the plays and masques, Jonson on his work, contemporary readers on Jonson, criticism / selected and edited by Robert M. Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Adams, Robert M. (Robert Martin), 1915-1996.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1979

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637--Dramatic works.

Jonson, Ben.

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637.

Masques--History and criticism.

Masques.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 502 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, [1979]

Summary:

This volume presents a new and fresh selection of Ben Jonson's dramatic works. It includes the three greatest and most accessible comedies - 'Volpone' (1606), 'Epicoene' (1609), and 'The Alchemist' (1610) - along with the seldom - reprinted unfinished pastoral comedy 'The Sad Shephard' (1640); in the editor's words, this play 'complements the other three plays, which are all urban in their setting, by displaying a broad, an almost romantic, strain of country feeling.'

Contents:

Volpone

Epicoene

Alchemist

Sad shepherd

Staging of Jonson's plays and masques

Masque of queens

Oberon, the faery prince

Mercury vindicated from the alchemists at court

Pleasure reconciled to virtue

Jonson on his work

Contemporary readers on Jonson

Criticism.

Notes:

Bibliography: page 502.

ISBN:

0393045064

9780393045062

0393090353

9780393090352

OCLC:

3870064