The Works Of Ben Jonson: With Notes Critical And Explanatory, And A Biographical Memoir

by Ben Jonson

The Works Of Ben With Notes Critical And Explanatory, And A Biographical Memoir by Ben Jonson. This is a scholarly edition that gathers Ben Jonson’s celebrated court masques and related entertainments from the Jacobean era, providing critical notes, annotations, and a biographical memoir of the author. The volume assembles elaborate stage spectacles produced for Whitehall and other royal sites, such as Blackness, Beauty, Hymen, and Queens, along with more political and festive pieces like The Barriers, The World in the Moon, News from the New World discovered in the Moon, The Gipsies Metamorphosed, Pleasure reconciled to Virtue, The Golden Age Restored, and Augurs. Accompanied by editor’s commentary on classical allusions, actor lists, and performance contexts, the edition preserves the original texts while guiding modern readers through the intricate visual devices, courtly satire, and Neoclassical pageantry that mark Jonson’s contribution to early modern drama.

466 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 2010

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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