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, 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