jonson, ben

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Features analysis of the plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Entries include: introduction providing overview of play; brief biography of playwright; plot summary; discussion of play's principal themes; essays on play's construction; and excerpted critical commentary.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ben Jonson.

Profiles the life and career of Ben Jonson who is regarded as the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries and who is the author of may stage plays, was a principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, and among the first Poet Laureate's in England.

Presents a representative selection of poems by Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets, including Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, and others; and features criticism written from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.

A collection of fourteen critical essays on the works of the English dramatist and poet arranged in chronological order of publication.