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This edition of Ben Jonson's four comedies, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, places the works in the popular history and culture of the times, (1605-1614), and surveys the influences, classical and contemporary on Jonson as a playwright. Brief introductions to each play discuss local settings, sources, theatre history and suggest further reading, and the introduction includes a biography of Jonson, and a full chronology of the plays and masques.

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Every aspect is done with scholarly thoroughness;and it is in the completeness of annotation that this text truly has no rival in terms of an edited selection of Jonson's plays. Speech and Drama

Every aspect is done with scholarly thoroughness;and it is in the completeness of annotation that this text truly has no rival in terms of an edited selection of Jonson's plays. Speech and Drama

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Ben Jonson , Dr. Helen Ostovich

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