This comprehensive collection of plays, poetry, and prose by Ben Jonson is a must-have for any lover of English literature. William Gifford's edition includes detailed annotations and commentary that shed…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

The papers in this volume were given by some of the world’s foremost Jonsonian scholars at a conference at the University of Toronto which marked the 400th anniversary of Ben…

Ben Jonson’s contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the great refiner who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant…

Renaissance court masques involved music, dance, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects. The form was transformed by Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. Includes Jonson’s own notes and glosses…

THIS 42 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown, by Andrew Lang. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766141063.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…