Jonson
Subtitle: Volpone
By: Marshall Botvinick
Series: Shakespeare handbooks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137379818; 9781137379801
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; Handbooks, manuals
Description: "This introductory guide to one of Jonson's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: General Editors' Preface; title: 1. The Text and Early Performances; title: 2. Cultural Contexts and Sources; title: 3. Commentary; title: 4. Key Productions and Performances; title: 5. The Play on Screen; title: 6. Critical Assessment; title: Further Reading; title: Index.