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  Plays and Masques (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback) By (author) Ben Jonson, Volume editor Richard Harp

  

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  Short Description for Plays and MasquesContains three plays and three masques, all with expanded annotations. The book also contains a selection of Jonson's own comments on his writings, a section called "Contemporary Readers on Jonson", a section called "backgrounds and sources", and a collection of 12 critical essays.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 11 July 2001
  • Format: Paperback 534 pages
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  • Categories: Plays, Playscripts | Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights
  • ISBN 13: 9780393976380 ISBN 10: 0393976386
  • Sales rank: 197,970

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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.