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200 10$aBen Jonson, Renaissance dramatist$b[electronic resource] /$fSean McEvoy
210   $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (193 p.)
225 1 $aRenaissance Dramatists
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-7486-2301-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCopyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations used; Illustrations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Life and Culture; 2. The Early Comedies (1597-1601); 3. The Roman Tragedies - Sejanus (1603) and Catiline (1611); 4. Volpone, or The Fox (1605-6); 5. Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609); 6. The Alchemist (1610); 7. Bartholomew Fair (1614); 8. The Devil is an Ass (1616); 9. The Late Plays (1626-34); Further Reading; Bibliography; Index
330   $aThis 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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