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Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson; Suzanne Gossett (Editor)
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Category: Drama | Series: Revels Student Editions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The annual fair for St Bartholomew's Day is a bawdy celebration peopled by tricksters, thieves, prostitutes, pedlars and entertainers. Also drawn to the festivities are a group of ordinary citizens who find their respectable lives turned up ...Show more
Ben Jonson - The Complete Poems by Ben Jonson; George Parfitt (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
His adoption of classical ideals was combined with a vigorous interest in contemporary life and a strong faith in native idiom. Within the urbane elegance of his verse forms he contrived a directness and energy of statement clearly related to colloquial speech, and this characteristic fusion of restrain ...Show more
Epicoene or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
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Category: Drama | Series: New Mermaids | Reading Level: very good
'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the greatest and most noble construction of any pure unmixed comedy in any language'. Its title signals Jonson's ...Show more
Every Man in his Humour by Ben Jonson
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Category: Drama | Series: Methuen's English Classics | Reading Level: good
Five Plays by Ben Jonson
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Category: Drama | Series: The World's Classics ( No. 524) | Reading Level: good- very good
Volpone and Other Plays by JONSON BEN
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Category: Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances will flock to his bedside with extravagant gifts in ...Show more
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