Bartholomew Fair - Couverture souple

Jonson, Ben

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0713152125 ISBN 13 : 9780713152128

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 1964

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last written of his four great comedies. It was first staged on 31 October 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men. Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicœne, or the Silent Woman, and nine after Volpone, it is in some respects the most experimental of these plays. The play begins with an extended bit of metadrama; the company's stage-keeper enters, criticising the play about to be performed because it lacks romantic and fabulous elements. He is then pushed from the stage by the book-keeper, who (serving as prologue) announces a contract between author and audience. The contract appears to itemise Jonson's discontentment with his audiences: Members are not to find political satire where none is intended; they are not to take as oaths such innocuous phrases as "God quit you"; they are not to "censure by contagion," but must exercise their own judgment; moreover, they are allowed to judge only in proportion to the price of their ticket. Perhaps most important, they agree not to expect a throwback to the sword-and-buckler age of Smithfield, for Jonson has given them a picture of the present and unromantic state of the fair.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Editor XXV BARTHOLOMEW FAIR BY BEN JONSON EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY BY CARROLL STORRS ALDEN, Ph.D.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Educational
• Date d'édition: 1964
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0713152125
• ISBN 13: 9780713152128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Partridge Edward
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