Staple of News - By Ben Jonson

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Parr is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa Klappentext Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new ?99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at ?.99). The complete canon of Ben Jonson is being brought back into print in the Revels. The play itself is one of Jonson's best and has a prescient storyline about journalism being traduced and becoming entertainment instead of remaining factual. Zusammenfassung A lively and ambitious satire in which Ben Jonson takes a stand on various developments in later Jacobean society. It offers a modernised text based on a collation of the 1631-40 folio! together with an introduction and a commentary which sets Jonson's art in its social and intellectual context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The text2. Career and Date3. Sources and traditions4. Jonson and the news trade5. The play6. The play on the stage7. THE STAPLE OF NEWS8. Appendices

Product details

• Authors: Ben Johnson, Ben Jonson, Anthony Parr, Tony Parr
• Assisted by: Anthony Parr (Editor), Tony Parr (Editor), Parr Tony (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2000
• EAN: 9780719059063
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5906-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Revels Plays (Paperback); The Revels Plays
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, C 1600 To C 1700, Literary studies: plays and playwrights