[PDF] Apologie For Bartholomew Fayre The Art Of Jonsons Comedies By Freda L Townsend eBook

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 20,29 MB
Release : 1989-05-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521318426

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Dr Butler's edition is full and informative in its annotations and survey of criticisms to date, and cautiously respectful of Jonsonian punctuation.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 1963-03-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300094701

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Not as well known today as Volpne and The Alchemist, this comedy of London’s lower classes was a great favorite of Ben Jonson’s contemporaries. The richness of its comic invention and the complexity of its plot and satirical view have returned it to its former high repute, and Professor Waith’s skillful and illuminating critical Introduction vividly demonstrates its artistic excellence. The high standards for textual accuracy and critical apparatus set for Volpone, the first volume of the Yale edition of Ben Jonson, are maintained here, and the format is identical. In addition, the editor has supplied an appendix and the original staging of the play that assists the reader greatly and is in itself a valuable contribution to studies of Elizabethan and Jacobean stagecraft. Eugene M. Waith is professor of English at Yale University. The Yale Ben Jonson, 2.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1989-08-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521292481

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A volume containing three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays: Sejanus, Volpone and Epicoene.

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719030932

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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 attention is paid to the rhythmic effects of the play in performance, especially interweavings of the main plot and subplot. Fresh suggestions are made about the play’s opening and its controversial conclusion in the light of experiments that have been made in performance since Volpone ’s stage revival in 1921. The modernized text is accompanied by full commentary, notes and illustrations. The appendices include a discussion by John Cutts of the original music, passages translated from the original sources and analogues, and a full record of the play’s modern stage history, its many adaptations, and its transformations into opera, musical comedy, film and television.