The Case is Altered

by Ben Jonson (Creator), Frederic Ives Carpenter (Creator)

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114 pages, Hardcover

First published December 27, 2009

About the author

Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems. A man of vast reading and a seemingly insatiable appetite for controversy, Jonson had an unparalleled breadth of influence on Jacobean and Caroline playwrights and poets. A house in Dulwich College is named after him.

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Reviews

[Drab · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing play. Great intro to Jonson. Reminds me in some ways of one of the moot plays of Cornielle, but I'll be damned if I can remember which. Other people reviewed this play poorly on this app. Because they're fuckin idiots. Jonson was right about critics.

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

No sleep for the tired bones of Plautus. An infinite chain of playwrights parade in and out cribbing and copying: Jonson high-fives Shakespeare, Heywood compares notes with Molière, and somewhere in the back Steven Sondheim hums showtunes.

The Case Is Altered is one of a long line of Plautus-rips, an entertaining one, though perhaps not a vital one.

[Daniel Callister · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jonson's writing is closer to Shakespeare's than most of their contemporaries I've read. He's good, and barring the Bard, he may be my favorite Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright. This play is clever, fun, and brief.

[sologdin · Rating 2 out of 5]

has a great opening scene wherein one dude asks another to "commend him for a fellow fit for consanguinity, and that he shaketh with desire of procreation, or so."