The Devil Is an Ass - Couverture souple

Jonson, Ben

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854592688 ISBN 13 : 9781854592682

Editeur : Nick Hern Books, 1995

Synopsis

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Pug, a junior demon, persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London. Taking over the body of a recently hanged thief, Pug becomes servant to a squire from Norfolk, Fitzdottrel, who doesn't believe that Pug is a devil but is happy that he asks no wages.

Ben Jonson's comedy The Devil is an Ass was first performed by the King's Men in 1616.

This edition of The Devil is an Ass in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited by Peter Happé, and introduced by Simon Trussler.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In The Devil is an A ss Jonson may be studied, first, as a student; secondly, as an observer. Separated by only two years from the preceding play, Bartholomew Fair, and by nine from the following, The Staple of News, the present play marks the close of an epoch in the poets life, the period of his vigorous maturity. I ts relations with the plays of his earlier periods are therefore of especial interest. The results of the present editors s.tudy of these and other literary connections are presented, partly in the Notes, and partly in the Introduction to this book. After the discussion of the purely technical problems in Sections A and B, the larger features are taken up in Section C, I and II. These involve a study of the authors indebtedness to English, I talian, and classical sources, and especially to the early English drama; as well as of his own dramatic methods in previous plays. The more minute relations to contemporary dramatists and to his own former work, especially in regard to current words and phrases, are dealt with in the Notes. As an observer, Jonson appears as a student of London, and a satirist of its manners and vices; and, in a broader way, as a critic of contemporary England. The life and aspect of London are treated, for the most part, in the Notes; the issues of state involved in Jonson ssatire are presented in historical discussions in Section C, III. Personal satire is treated in the division following. I desire to express my sincere thanks to Professor Albert S. Cook for advice in matters of form and for inspiration in the work; to Professor Henry A. Beers for painstaking discussion of difficult questions; to Dr. De Winter for help and criticism; to Dr. John
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nick Hern Books
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854592688
• ISBN 13: 9781854592682
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible