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Volpone: A critical guide (Continuum Renaissance Drama)
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Description for Volpone: A critical guide (Continuum Renaissance Drama)
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's "Volpone" - introducing its critical history, performance history, critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. Editor(s): Steggle, Matthew. Series: Continuum Renaissance Drama. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 248.
This is a comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's "Volpone" - introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. As perhaps the best-known and most-studied work in the canon of Shakespeare's leading contemporary rival, Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1606) is a particularly important play for thinking about early modern drama as a whole. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays presenting contrasting ... Read more
This is a comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's "Volpone" - introducing its critical history, performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. As perhaps the best-known and most-studied work in the canon of Shakespeare's leading contemporary rival, Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1606) is a particularly important play for thinking about early modern drama as a whole. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays presenting contrasting ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Continuum Renaissance Drama
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780826411532
SKU
V9780826411532
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About
Matthew Steggle is Reader in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is editor of the ejournal Early Modern Literary Studies, and a Contributing Editor to The Cambridge Works of Ben Jonson.
Reviews for Volpone: A critical guide (Continuum Renaissance Drama)
...offers the most wide-ranging and thought-provoking overview of Jonson's comedy ever assembled. It considers the play both as a literary text and as a performance piece, covering its history on the stage and in critical commentary, and so illuminating the current state of scholarship on this most provocative and ambiguous of plays. The well-balanced essays are not afraid to disagree ... Read more