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Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (Second Edition) (original 2001; edition 2000)

by Ben Jonson, Richard Harp, Richard L. Harp (Editor)

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Also included are three masques: Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemist at Court, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and--new to the Second Edition--The Masque of Blackness, Jonson's first masque and one that deals with issues of interest to contemporary culture. Each text includes expanded annotations. Jonson on His Work collects statements by the author on plays and on poetry taken from some of the plays, from Discoveries, and from Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. Contemporary Readers on Jonson includes tributes and poems about the author and his work. A new section--"Backgrounds and Sources"--includes selections from texts that helped shaped the dramatist's vision. Criticism includes twelve essays--nine of them new to the Second Edition--by Jonas A. Barish, Robert C. Evans, Anne Barton, John Dryden, Robert Watson, Edward B. Partridge, Ian Donaldson, Richard Harp, D. J. Gordon, Stephen Orgel, John Mulryan, and Leah S. Marcus.… (more)
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Title:Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (Second Edition)
Authors:Ben Jonson
Other authors:Richard Harp, Richard L. Harp (Editor)
Info:W. W. Norton & Company (2000), Edition: Second Edition, Paperback, 536 pages
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Tags:Ben Jonson, plays, masques, literature, history, England, English, The Masque of blackness, race, King James I, Queen Anne, theatre, language, imperialism, religion, racism

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Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] by Ben Jonson (2001)

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Harp, Richard L.Editormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Barish, Jonas A.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Barton, AnneContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Donaldson, IanContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dryden, JohnContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Gordon, D. J.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Marcus, Leah S.Contributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Orgel, StephenContributorsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
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Also included are three masques: Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemist at Court, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and--new to the Second Edition--The Masque of Blackness, Jonson's first masque and one that deals with issues of interest to contemporary culture. Each text includes expanded annotations. Jonson on His Work collects statements by the author on plays and on poetry taken from some of the plays, from Discoveries, and from Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. Contemporary Readers on Jonson includes tributes and poems about the author and his work. A new section--"Backgrounds and Sources"--includes selections from texts that helped shaped the dramatist's vision. Criticism includes twelve essays--nine of them new to the Second Edition--by Jonas A. Barish, Robert C. Evans, Anne Barton, John Dryden, Robert Watson, Edward B. Partridge, Ian Donaldson, Richard Harp, D. J. Gordon, Stephen Orgel, John Mulryan, and Leah S. Marcus.

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