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Book Complete Critical Edition  4  Cynthia s Revels  Poetaster  Sejanus  Eastward Ho

Download or read book Complete Critical Edition 4 Cynthia s Revels Poetaster Sejanus Eastward Ho written by Ben Jonson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-06-26 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

Book Ben Jonson  Cynthia s revels   Poetaster   Sejanus   Eastward Ho

Download or read book Ben Jonson Cynthia s revels Poetaster Sejanus Eastward Ho written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ben Jonson

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  • Author : Ben Jonson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1932
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cynthia s Revels  Or  The Fountain of Self Love

Download or read book Cynthia s Revels Or The Fountain of Self Love written by Ben Jonson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cynthia's Revels; Or, The Fountain of Self-Love" by Ben Jonson In the play, the goddess, Cynthia, has ordained a "solemn revels" in the valley of Gargaphie in Greece. The gods Cupid and Mercury appear, and they too start to argue. Mercury has awakened Echo, who weeps for Narcissus, and states that a drink from Narcissus's spring causes the drinkers to "Grow dotingly enamored of themselves." Asotus, a foolish spendthrift who longs to become a courtier and a master of fashion and manners, also drinks from the spring; emboldened by vanity and self-love, he challenges all comers to a competition of "court compliment." The competition is held, in four phases, and the courtiers are beaten.

Book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies

Download or read book The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 1977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.

Book The Ephemeral History of Perfume

Download or read book The Ephemeral History of Perfume written by Holly Dugan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents -- incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited -- churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury markets, and pleasure gardens -- and the objects used to dispense them. This original approach provides a rare opportunity to study how early modern men and women negotiated the environment in their everyday lives and the importance of smell to their daily actions. Dugan defines perfume broadly to include spices, flowers, herbs, animal parts, trees, resins, and other ingredients used to produce artificial scents, smokes, fumes, airs, balms, powders, and liquids. In researching these Renaissance aromas, Dugan uncovers the extraordinary ways, now largely lost, that people at the time spoke and wrote about smell: objects "ambered, civited, expired, fetored, halited, resented, and smeeked" or were described as "breathful, embathed, endulced, gracious, halited, incensial, odorant, pulvil, redolent, and suffite." A unique contribution to early modern studies, The Ephemeral History of Perfume is an unparalleled study of olfaction in the Renaissance, a period in which new scents and important cultural theories about smell were developed. Dugan's inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth of information on the topic.

Book The Age of Shakespeare  1579 1631

Download or read book The Age of Shakespeare 1579 1631 written by Thomas Seccombe and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ben Jonson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Barton
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1984-07-12
  • ISBN : 9780521277488
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Anne Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist.

Book Licensed by Authority

Download or read book Licensed by Authority written by Richard Burt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatist whose own works were repeatedly censored early in his career and who later stood in succession to become the court censor himself, Ben Jonson embodies the contradictions and complexities of theater censorship in the early Stuart period. Focusing on Jonson's writings and the political vicissitudes of his career, Richard Burt offers a provocative reinterpretation of Jacobean and Caroline theater censorship and theatrical culture. Informed by the writings of Foucault and Bourdieu, Licensed by Authority historicizes censorship, arguing that it was less a matter of denying dramatists liberty of speech than a network of productive strategies for legitimating and delegitimating specific discursive practices. Burt draws on a rich body of archival and literary evidence, including plays by Shakespeare and by Jonson's Caroline contemporaries, in order to demonstrate that censorship was nurtured and sustained not only by a culturally diverse Stuart court but also by the playwrights themselves, along with theatrical entrepreneurs, printers, poets, and critics.

Book Ben Jonson

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Loxley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-06-29
  • ISBN : 1134596510
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Ben Jonson written by James Loxley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Every Man in His Humour

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  • Author : Ben Jonson
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2000-10-13
  • ISBN : 9780719015656
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 1601 quarto version of Ben Jonson's play, set in Florence. The text is edited and modernised, and instead of endorsing the folio version as the superior play, the introduction seeks to understand this version on its own terms.

Book The Best Works of Ben Jonson s Comedies   Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson  Volpone  Or  The Fox by Ben Jonson  The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Download or read book The Best Works of Ben Jonson s Comedies Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson Volpone Or The Fox by Ben Jonson The Alchemist by Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Step into the world of comedic satire with “Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson.” Ben Jonson's play takes a humorous look at human folly and the quirks of individual personalities, offering a delightful exploration of the comedic potential inherent in the diversity of human behavior. Book 2: Indulge in the clever machinations and deceitful plots of “Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson.” Jonson's comedy unfolds with wit and cunning as the sly Volpone feigns illness to trick his greedy acquaintances, providing a humorous commentary on human greed and moral ambiguity. Book 3: Enter the world of alchemical antics and clever schemes in “The Alchemist by Ben Jonson.” Jonson's comedic masterpiece follows the exploits of a trio of con artists who exploit the gullibility of their victims. The play is a satirical exploration of greed, deception, and the pursuit of wealth through dubious means.

Book Ben Jonson   s Theatrical Republics

Download or read book Ben Jonson s Theatrical Republics written by J. Sanders and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book challenges conventional critical wisdom about the work of Ben Jonson. Looking in particular at his Jacobean and Caroline plays, it explores his engagement with concepts of republicanism. Julie Sanders investigates notions of community in Jonson's stage worlds - his 'theatrical republics' - and reveals a Jonson to contrast with the traditional image of the writer as conservative, absolutist, misogynist, and essentially 'anti-theatrical'. The Jonson presented here is a positive celebrant of the social and political possibilities of theatre.

Book The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson

Download or read book The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson written by James Loxley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.

Book Ben Jonson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Jonson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-06-11
  • ISBN : 1317897927
  • Pages : 711 pages

Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Ben Jonson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Ben Jonson's four middle comedies places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, 1605-1614, and surveys the influences, both classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. On-the-page annotations recreate the audiences perception of the plays as performances by commenting on the stage-directions, the self-conscious theatricality of characters and scenes, and the vivid colloquialisms of early modern London that give the dialogue a heightened dimension of realism. Brief introductions to each play discuss the local settings, sources, theatre history and further readings. The general introduction includes a biography of Jonson, a chronology of the plays and masques, and separate essays on each play, dealing particularly with Jonson's satirical treatments of trends and shams of the day, whether political, social, commercial, or spiritual.