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Author: Richard Harp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-11-30
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521646789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
Author: Ton Hoenselaars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1107494338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.
Author: Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-01-27
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0521874343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.
Author: Thomas N. Corns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-11-18
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521423090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.
Author: Achsah Guibbory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-02-02
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1107494869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.
Author: Margreta de Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-05
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 1139825984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
Author: Alexander Leggatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521779425
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 5224
ISBN-13: 9780521782463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It provides a clear sense of the shape, scale, and variety of the entire Jonsonian canon, including plays, court masques and entertainments, poems, prose works and letters. The texts, which are edited in modern spelling, appear in chronological sequence. They have been freshly established from a comprehensive survey of manuscripts and printed sources. Each is accompanied by an introduction containing essential information about its date, sources, and interpretation and is supported by detailed on-page commentary and collation. The Edition presents Jonson's texts in a form which combines thoroughness of explanation with readability. It explicates his works fully in the light of modern scholarship, making them accessible to students, scholars, theatrical practitioners, and anyone wishing to explore the work of Shakespeare's great contemporary.
Author: A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0521767547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion is devoted to the life and works of Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights in early modern London.
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 762
ISBN-13: 9781107096479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This seven-volume edition presents Ben Jonson's complete writings for modern readers in the light of recent scholarly interpretation and discovery.
