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The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: "Sejanus", "Volpone", ""Epicoene or the Silent Woman": v. 1 (Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists)
 
 
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The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: "Sejanus", "Volpone", ""Epicoene or the Silent Woman": v. 1 (Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists) (Paperback)

by Ben Jonson (Author), Johanna Procter (Editor), Martin Butler (Introduction) "Sejanus presents a rare triumph in the use of sources: a faithful adherence to the contents, and frequently the letter, of the originals, in an..." (more)
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This volume contains three of Ben Jonson’s greatest plays - Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609). Sejanus, an experimental tragedy written in the classical manner, was labelled a seditious work at the time of its first production and embroiled Jonson with the Privy Council. Volpone is the first of his mature comedies, with a remarkable cast of Venetian legacy-hunters: using verse of mock-heroic grandeur Jonson created in the character of Volpone one of his most flamboyant and cynical swindlers. Epicoene is a brilliant farce which makes fun of the pretensions of the courtiers, wits and bluestockings of contemporary London. Jonson was unique in his own time for the close personal supervision he gave to the publication of his plays. As a result, the early published texts of the plays in this volume carry an unusually high degree of authorial intention. In preparing this modernised edition an attempt has been made to conserve something of the author’s highly individual treatment of names, verb forms and punctuation.

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This volume contains three of Ben Jonson’s greatest plays - Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1606) and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1609). Sejanus, an experimental tragedy written in the classical manner, was labelled a seditious work at the time of its first production. Volpone is the first of his mature comedies, with a remarkable cast of Venetian legacy-hunters. Epicoene is a brilliant farce which makes fun of the pretensions of the courtiers, wits and bluestockings of contemporary London.
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Sejanus presents a rare triumph in the use of sources: a faithful adherence to the contents, and frequently the letter, of the originals, in an imaginative recreation of history intended to convey moral truth and its lessons to the contemporary audience; as the subsequent accusation of Jonson showed, not without danger to the dramatist. Read the first page
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