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Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale ben Jonson edition.

RSC Gunpowder Season – explosive Elizabethan and Jacobean dramas of dissent, staged by the RSC in 2005. The Emperor Tiberius raises a statue to ho...

The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects was transformed by Ben Jo...

Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton ...

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting natu...

The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The fu...

The Nick Hern Books RSC Classics - a series of rarely performed plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, published alongside their resurrection by t...

The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben J...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Pug, a junior demon, persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London. ...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The annual fair for St Bartholomew's Day is a bawdy celebration peopled by trickst...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Ben Jonson's comedy, one of the finest of the Jacobean era. Volpone is a Venetian...

The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the...

One of Jonson’s greatest plays, Sejanus, has seldom been edited, and is here published, with full notes and introduction, for the first time since ...

This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of plays by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute ob...

'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reacti...

Like all of Jonson's city comedies, this play - here given in the 1616 Folio version, in which Jonson rewrote and set it in England, not Italy - is...

Early modern London - too foggy and Protestant to have a carnival - offered its inhabitants commercial events during which to indulge their need fo...

One of the greatest English playwrights of the seventeenth century, Ben Jonson was also a deeply influential lyric poet, whose poetry combined clas...

Not as well known today as Volpne and The Alchemist, this comedy of London’s lower classes was a great favorite of Ben Jonson’s contemporaries. The...

In none of Ben Jonson’s plays is Renaissance heroic humanism converted to comic reality more obviously and successfully than in The Alchemist.  Her...

Volpone, or “The Fox,” is one of Jonson’s most popular plays and through the years has been a favorite of both theater-goers and readers.  Professo...

Volpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonson’s great parable of greed, self-interest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satirize the wealthy and the gree...

Complete and unabridged, with an introduction by Felix E. Schelling and a new timeline of the life and times of Ben Jonson, this elegantly designed...

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city...

The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose ...

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting natu...

The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose ...