This volume contains three of Ben Jonson's greatest plays - Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609). Sejanus, an experimental tragedy written in the classical manner, was labelled a seditious work at the time of its first production and embroiled Jonson with the Privy Council. Volpone is the first of his mature comedies, with a remarkable cast of Venetian legacy-hunters: using verse of mock-heroic grandeur Jonson created in the character of Volpone one of his most flamboyant and cynical swindlers. Epicoene is a brilliant farce which makes fun of the pretensions of the courtiers, wits and bluestockings of contemporary London. Jonson was unique in his own time for the close personal supervision he gave to the publication of his plays. As a result, the early published texts of the plays in this volume carry an unusually high degree of authorial intention. In preparing this modernised edition an attempt has been made to conserve something of the author's highly individual treatment of names, verb forms and punctuation.
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The author's highly individualized treatment of names, verb forms and punctuation is preserved in this volume of three of his greatest plays--Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609).
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Sejanus presents a rare triumph in the use of sources: a faithful adherence to the contents, and frequently the letter, of the originals, in an imaginative recreation of history intended to convey moral truth and its lessons to the contemporary audience; as the subsequent accusation of Jonson showed, not without danger to the dramatist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most honoured fathers, master parson, individual editions, grave fathers, master doctor, folio text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Textual Note, Additional Note, Sir John, Sir Amorous, Sir Dauphine, Sir Pol, Master Truewit, Jack Daw, Signior Corvino, Lady Haughty, Master Clerimont, The Alchemist, Master Morose, Tom Otter, Caius Silius, Cremutius Cordus, Julius Caesar, Mistress Epicoene, Bartholomew Fair, Bear Garden, Caius Caesar, Captain Otter, Signior Voltore, Yale University Press, Claudia Pulchra New!
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Sejanus presents a rare triumph in the use of sources: a faithful adherence to the contents, and frequently the letter, of the originals, in an imaginative recreation of history intended to convey moral truth and its lessons to the contemporary audience; as the subsequent accusation of Jonson showed, not without danger to the dramatist. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most honoured fathers, master parson, individual editions, grave fathers, master doctor, folio text Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Textual Note, Additional Note, Sir John, Sir Amorous, Sir Dauphine, Sir Pol, Master Truewit, Jack Daw, Signior Corvino, Lady Haughty, Master Clerimont, The Alchemist, Master Morose, Tom Otter, Caius Silius, Cremutius Cordus, Julius Caesar, Mistress Epicoene, Bartholomew Fair, Bear Garden, Caius Caesar, Captain Otter, Signior Voltore, Yale University Press, Claudia Pulchra New!
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- The Art of Poetry by Burton Raffel on 7 pages
- Bartholomew Fair (Revels Plays Student Editions) by Ben Jonson on 5 pages
- Every Man in His Humour, Second Edition (New Mermaids) by Ben Jonson in Front Matter, page 296, and Back Matter
- Ben Jonson: A Collection of Critical Essays (Twentieth-Century Views series) by NRA National Restaurant Association in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 6
- Dramatic Form in Shakespeare and the Jacobeans by Leo Salingar in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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