Ben Jonson, Renaissance dramatist Sean McEvoy. [print]
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- 9780748629916
- PR2638.M478.B465 2008
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | PR2638 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn232570732 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Life and culture -- The early comedies (1597-1601) -- The Roman tragedies: Sejanus (1603) and Catiline (1611) -- Volpone, or The fox (1605-6) -- Epicoene, or The silent woman (1609) -- The alchemist (1610) -- Bartholomew Fair (1614) -- The devil is an ass (1616) -- The late plays (1626-34).
This new guide to the English renaissance?s most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now. It traces the sources of that phenomenon to Jonson?s vision of himself as a poet in the Roman tradition, and to his commitment to the sane and progressive ideals of humanism in a city where a rampant free-market and political authoritarianism made life conflicted, dangerous, and yet darkly, hilariously absurd. In his best plays, all of these forces are crafted into formal structures glittering with wit and pro.
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