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.
authoritative texts of Volpone, Epicoene, The alchemist, The masque of blackness, Mercury vindicated from the alchemists at court, Pleasure reconciled to virtue : contexts, backgrounds and sources, criticism
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.
Offers a brief biography of the life of Ben Johnson and provides plot summaries, extracts of major critical essays, and an index of themes and ideas for four of his plays.
Provides brief information about the life of playwright and poet Ben Jonson and the era in which he wrote, and features a genre-by-genre analysis of his comedies, tragedies, masques, poems, and prose writings.
