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Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques: 0 Paperback – 7 March 2001

by Ben Jonson (Author), Richard Harp (Author)
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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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  1. ISBN-10
    0393976386
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0393976380
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    *Norton agency titles
  5. Publication date
    7 March 2001
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    13.21 x 3.05 x 21.34 cm
  8. Print length
    390 pages
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About the Author

Richard L. Harp is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  He is co-editor, with Stanley Stewart, of the Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson.  He is the author of Dr. Johnson's Critical Vocabulary and Thomas Percy's Life of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith.  He is co-editor, with Robert Evans, of Frank O'Connor: New Perspectives.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ *Norton agency titles; 1st edition (7 March 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 390 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393976386
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393976380
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.21 x 3.05 x 21.34 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Terry Hagerty
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I'm doing research on a novel set in 17th century England, and I needed more information concerning Ben Jonson and his plays, especially his masques, which I had never read before. It's the same reason I purchased the Samuel Daniel book "Selected Poetry and A Defense of Rhyme". Both books were helpful.
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excellent reference as usual with Norton editions
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M. Brown
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Reviewed in the United States on 1 May 2010
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This work contains a number of important plays and masques by Ben Jonson and his collaborators, including the best annotated edition of The Alchemist I've found. While it by no means contains all of his works (the man was prolific, but in many ways this title should be "Ben Jonson's Comedies and Masques"), it's a great start if you're looking to build a library of Renaissance plays and performances on a reasonable budget.
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M Faintly
1.0 out of 5 stars Inadequate footnotes, no bio
Reviewed in the United States on 23 June 2022
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Norton Critical Editions are usually excellent; this one was quite a disappointment. Jonson needs as much footnoting as Shakespeare. The Yale Ben Jonson series is outstanding. The Cambridge Works on Ben Jonson, which is free and online with hypertext footnotes, is the best there is. These set the standard. The Revel and New Mermaids editions are hit-or-miss.

So get the Yale if you want a good one you can conveniently read.

Jonson really is a brilliant playwright, whose misfortune it was to be overshadowed by Shakespeare. But read on his own merits, WITH ADEQUATE FOOTNOTES, it turns out he is a very exciting, eloquent and enthralling author. He stands up to reading and re-reading, in fact you'll want to read his great plays more than once. There's so much to take in.
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