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- catalog abstract ""In this new collection of essays, Richard Dutton examines the literary and cultural climate of Jonson's age, the concept of authorship itself, and its place in the transition from a largely oral culture to one predominantly of print, the workings of patronage, and the nature of a literary marketplace situated between the royal court and the expanding City of London. In Jonson's career we can detect the beginnings of the modern world. The essays here, selected with that in mind, offer detailed readings of all the major plays, Sejanus, Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair as well as the poems and later plays only recently recovered as genuinely engaging pieces for the stage. Collectively they demonstrate why interest in Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11415121.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In this new collection of essays, Richard Dutton examines the literary and cultural climate of Jonson's age, the concept of authorship itself, and its place in the transition from a largely oral culture to one predominantly of print, the workings of patronage, and the nature of a literary marketplace situated between the royal court and the expanding City of London. In Jonson's career we can detect the beginnings of the modern world. The essays here, selected with that in mind, offer detailed readings of all the major plays, Sejanus, Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair as well as the poems and later plays only recently recovered as genuinely engaging pieces for the stage.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View / Don E. Wayne -- 3. Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage / John G. Sweeney III -- 4. State Secrets / Jonathan Goldberg -- 5. Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same / Stanley Fish -- 6. Unknown Ends: Volpone / Ian Donaldson -- 7. The Expense of Spirit / Mary Beth Rose -- 8. The Plague of The Alchemist / Cheryl Lynn Ross -- 9. Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair / Jonathan Haynes -- 10. Late Jonson / Martin Butler.".
- catalog description "Collectively they demonstrate why interest in Jonson is higher today than at any time since his death."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-218) and index.".
- catalog extent "vi, 223 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0582215064 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0582215072 (csd.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Longman critical readers".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Harlow, U.K. ; New York : Longman,".
- catalog subject "822/.3 21".
- catalog subject "Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR2638 .B462 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View / Don E. Wayne -- 3. Sejanus and the People's Beastly Rage / John G. Sweeney III -- 4. State Secrets / Jonathan Goldberg -- 5. Authors-Readers: Jonson's Community of the Same / Stanley Fish -- 6. Unknown Ends: Volpone / Ian Donaldson -- 7. The Expense of Spirit / Mary Beth Rose -- 8. The Plague of The Alchemist / Cheryl Lynn Ross -- 9. Festivity and the Dramatic Economy of Jonson's Bartholomew Fair / Jonathan Haynes -- 10. Late Jonson / Martin Butler.".
- catalog title "Ben Jonson / edited and introduced by Richard Dutton.".
- catalog type "text".