Ben Jonson : to the first folio
Richard Dutton focuses on the greatest landmark of Jonson's career, the 1616 folio collection of his works with which he crowned his growing reputation as a man of letters, collecting together the majority of his most enduring works - including Every Man in his Humour, Volpone, The Alchemist; the tragedies Sejanus and Catiline; and the major masques and poems.
Print Book, English, 1983
[1st ed.] View all formats and editions
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983
XI, 188 p. ; 22 cm.
9780521243131, 9780521285964, 0521243130, 0521285968
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Preface; Introduction: The 1616 folio and its place in Jonson's career; 1. The early plays; 2. Sejanus and Volpone: the defence of virtue; 3. Rare poems and rare friends: Jonson's Epigrams; 4. The masques and Epicoene; 5. The Forest, the Alchemist, Catiline: 'manners, arms and arts': a Renaissance ideal; 6. Covert allusions: state decipherers and politic picklocks; 7. Bartholomew Fair; Notes; Reading list; Index.