Ben Jonson - To the First Folio

Klappentext This book offers a critical assessment of the career of Ben Jonson. Zusammenfassung Richard Dutton focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career! the 1616 folio collection of his works with which he crowned his growing reputation as a man of letters! collecting together the majority of his most enduring works - including Every Man in his Humour! Volpone! The Alchemist; the tragedies Sejanus and Catiline; and the major masques and poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: The 1616 folio and its place in Jonson's career; 1. The early plays; 2. Sejanus and Volpone: the defence of virtue; 3. Rare poems and rare friends: Jonson's Epigrams; 4. The masques and Epicoene; 5. The Forest, the Alchemist, Catiline: 'manners, arms and arts': a Renaissance ideal; 6. Covert allusions: state decipherers and politic picklocks; 7. Bartholomew Fair; Notes; Reading list; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Dutton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.1983
• EAN: 9780521285964
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28596-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies