Works: Volume 4
Subtitle: Cynthia's Revels, Poetaster, Sejanus His Fall, Eastward Ho (The Oxford Jonson)
Contributors: C. H. Herford (Editor); Percy and Evelyn Simpson (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 28, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780198113553
Subjects: Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays & playwrights; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: Benjamin "Ben" Jonson was an English playwright, poet, actor and literary critic of the 17th century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He is best known for his satirical plays and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. This scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.