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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521277485
ISBN-139780521277488
eBay Product ID (ePID)1217034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages388 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBen Jonson : Dramatist
SubjectDrama, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year1984
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnne Barton
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN83-023196
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal822/.3
Table Of ContentPreface; Abbreviations and chronology of plays; 1. Jonson and the Elizabethans; 2. The Case Is Altered and Every Man In His Humour; 3. The comical satires; 4. Sejanus and Volpone; 5. Epicoene; 6. The Alchemist; 7. Catiline; 8. Names: the chapter interloping; 9. Bartholomew Fair; 10. The Devil Is An Ass; 11. The Staple of News and Eastward Ho!; 12. The New Inn; 13. The Magnetic Lady; 14. Harking back to Elizabeth: Jonson and Caroline nostalgia; 15. A Tale of A Tub; 16. The Sad Shepard; Notes; Index.
SynopsisAnne Barton gives a reading of the plays that completely re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist. The book proceeds chronologically through his plays examining his changing relationship to other Elizabethan and Jacobean poets and topics such as treatment of women, trust among individuals, father and son relationships, and proper names., Since the Romantic period, Jonson has been an author more respected than read. Frequently compared with Shakespeare, he usually suffers unfairly from the comparison. In this book Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays which completely re-evaluates Jonson as a dramatist. Describing in detail his experimentation with different comic styles and his changing relationship to other Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, particularly Shakespeare, she brings us closer than ever before to Jonson as a man, and as a great artist in comedy. The book proceeds chronologically, play by play, examining such important topics as Jonson's treatment of women, trust among individuals, father and son relationships, and proper names. Anne Barton argues that, despite his espousal of classical principles of decorum and restraint, Jonson was always drawn temperamentally towards the irregular, romantic Elizabethan tradition.