JONSON BEN

VOLPONE
Jonson's comic masterpiece whichh illustrates the manipulations and schemes people concoct out of greed....
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Ο ΑΛΧΗΜΙΣΤΗΣ
Ο κυρ-Χαροκόπος, εύπορος Λονδρέζος, φεύγει στην εξοχή από φόβο της πανούκλας και αφήνει το σπίτι του στον επιστάτη του Ιερεμία. Ο επιστάτης ανοίγει το σπίτι σ' έναν αλχημιστή αγύρτη (Ξουράφης), χειροτονείται λοχαγός (Φάτσας) και μαζί αρχίζουν να ξαφρίζουν τα ευκολόπιστα κορόιδα που προσπέφτουν στις τέχνες του Ξουράφη. Όσους απ' τους καημούς της πελατείας δεν μπορεί να θεραπεύσει ο θεράπων των απόκρυφων και μη επιστημών Ξουράφης, τις έχει αναλάβει η Δώρα, το τρίτο πρόσωπο της συμμορίας, γενικών καθηκόντων συνεργάτισσα και διακόνισσα της Αφρ...
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(P/B) THE DEVIL IS AN ASS
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 Elizabe...
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(P/B) BEN JONSON
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was born in London, and became a leading poet, playwright and essayist of the Elizabethan age. In 1598 he killed an actor in a duel but escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy, and by 1616 had re-established enough Court favour to be awarded a pension by James I - in effect making him the first Poet Laureate....
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(P/B) COMPLETE POEMS
Perhaps no seventeenth-century poet apart from Donne has exerted a greater formative influence on English poetry than Ben Jonson. His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restraint and vitality gave to the seventeenth-century lyric its most distinctive quality. As well as the entire body o...
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(P/B) THE ALCHEMIST
So says Face (a.k.a. Jeremy the butler), to Subtle, with whom, along with the prostitute Dol Common, he forms a trio of confidence tricksters. The 'stuff' he supplies are gulls who believe Subtle to be a wise man and an alchemist able to transform their fortunes by turning base metal into gold. With brilliant resourcefulness and wildly inventive wit, the trio of - who have occupied Jeremy's absent master's house in a time of plague - fleece the various victims who come to them in pursuit of their own greed. In this play Jonson satirizes th...
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(P/B) THE STAPLE OF NEWS
This edition offers a modernized text based on a fresh collation of the 1631-1640 folio, together with an account of the play's printing history, a full commentary which sets Jonson's art in its intellectual and social context, and an introduction which seeks to do justice to the play's braod scope and to suggest something of its theatrical potential. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) SEJANUS
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...
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(P/B) THE MAGNETIC LADY
This is the paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's The Magnetic Lady written in 1632. It contains textual and explanatory notes and the text is modernised for student use. The introduction places the play in the context of Jonson's later dramatic and poetic works and discusses the political context of the Caroline court. A performance history of the play and fresh material relating to its seventeenth-century reception are also provided. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) VOLPONE, OR THE FOX
This is the most thoroughly investigated edition of Volpone to date, based on a wider collation of the 1607 quarto and 1616 folio versions than was previously possible. It calls into question several accepted textual conclusions. The introduction sets Volpone in the context of Jonson's career at the time of writing and introduces new material on its relation to the Reynard beast epic and the commedia dell' arte. Ambiguities in the play are discussed with reference to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of the Golden Age. Particular att...
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(P/B) EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOR
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 modernised 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 ...
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(P/B) EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOR
Despite its popularity when it first appeared in print in 1600, Every Man out of His Humour has never appeared as a single modern critical edition until now. The volume's introduction and annotations convey early modern obsessions with wealth and self-display by providing historical contexts and pointing out the continuity of those obsessions into modern life. The play is of interest because of its influence on the course of city comedy and its wealth of information about social relationships and colloquial language at the end of Elizabeth...
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(P/B) EPICENE, OR THE SILENT WOMAN
Epicene is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirises the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly wit rubs shoulders with commercial values. This authoritative new edition, now in paperback, is based on a thorough re-examination of the earliest texts. The introduction analyses the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-k...
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(P/B) VOLPONE

(P/B) JONSON: FIVE PLAYS

(P/B) BEN JONSON'S PLAYS & MASQUES