Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson - Plays - Complete Collection - Vol II

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Produktbeschreibung

This edition of Ben Jonson's Plays is complete in two volumes. This is Volume Two. Contents: Vol II: The Alchemist (1610) Bartholomew Fair (1614) The Case is Altered (1599) Catiline his Conspiracy (1611) The Devil Is an Ass (1631) The Magnetic Lady (1632) The New Inn (1629) The Sad Shepherd (1637?) The Staple of News, (1625) A Tale of a Tub (1633). At the end of each volume is a glossary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pomona Press
• Seitenzahl: 744
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1109g
• ISBN-13: 9781406791822
• ISBN-10: 1406791822
• Artikelnr.: 22604635

Autorenporträt

Jonson was a classically educated, well-read, and cultured English Renaissance man with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual), and his cultural influence was unparalleled on the playwrights and poets of the Jacobean and Caroline eras (1603-1625 and 1625-1642, respectively). In midlife, Jonson stated that his paternal grandfather, who "served King Henry 8 and was a gentleman," was a member of the extended Johnston family of Annandale in Dumfries and Galloway, a genealogy supported by the three spindles (rhombi) in the Jonson family coat of arms, one of which is a diamond-shaped heraldic device used by the Johnston family. Jonson's father lost his property, was imprisoned, and, as a Protestant, faced forfeiture under Queen Mary. He became a clergyman after his release and died a month before his son was born. His widow married a master bricklayer two years later. Jonson attended school in St Martin's Lane, London. Later, a family friend paid for his education at Westminster School, where he studied under William Camden (1551-1623), an antiquarian, historian, topographer, and officer of arms.