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Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Plays by Ben Jonson" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of ...
Title page of The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (1616), the first folio publication that included stage plays. Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) collected his plays and other writings into a book he titled The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. In 1616 it was printed in London in the form of a folio. [1]
Ben Jonson and Envy (Cambridge University Press, 2009) Rosalind Miles. Ben Jonson: His Craft and Art (Routledge, London 2017) Rosalind Miles. Ben Jonson: His Life and Work (Routledge, London 1986) George Parfitt. Ben Jonson: Public Poet and Private Man (J. M. Dent, 1976) Richard S. Peterson. Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson ...
The Devil Is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616, first published in 1631, and based on the events of the famous Leicester Boy Witch Trial. [ 1 ] The Devil Is an Ass followed Bartholomew Fair (1614), one of the author's greatest works, and marks the start of the final phase of his dramatic career.
Every Man Out contains an allusion to John Marston's Histriomastix in Act III, scene i, a play that was acted in the autumn of 1599; the clown character Clove speaks "fustian" in mimicry of Marston's style. This is one instance of Jonson's involvement in the War of the Theatres. Scholars have found references to Sir Walter Raleigh and Gabriel ...
Bartholomew Fair is a Jacobean comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men company. [1] Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicœne, or the Silent Woman, and nine after Volpone, it is in some respects the most experimental of these plays. [2]
Volpone ([volˈpoːne], Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies.
Title page of Eastward Hoe. Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho! is an early Jacobean-era stage play written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston.The play was first performed at the Blackfriars Theatre by a company of boy actors known as the Children of the Queen's Revels in early August 1605, [1] and it was printed in September the same year.