Ben Jonson

ISBN-13: 9780582215061 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 230 str.

Richard Dutton

Opis

This collection offers detailed readings of all Ben Jonson's major plays - "Volpone", "Epicene", "The Alchemist" and "Bartholomew Fair" - and the poems. It also provides insights into the court masques and the later plays which have been rediscovered in the late-20th century.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements vi 1 Introduction 1 2 D o n E. W a y n e Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View 26 3 J o h n G . Sw e e n e y III Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage 5 0 4 J o n a t h a n G o l d b e r g State Secrets 70 5 St a n l e y F i s h Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same 83 6 Ia n D o n a l d s o n Unknown Ends: Volpone 118 7 M a r y B e t h R o s e The Expense of Spirit 136 8 C h e r y l L y n n Ross The Plague of The Alchemist 149 9 J o n a t h a n H a y n e s Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair 167 10 M a r t i n B u t l e r Late Jonson 189 Further Reading 210 Index

O autorze

Richard Dutton