The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume Set

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-521-78246-3
Verlag: Cambridge-Hitachi

Buch, Englisch, 5224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 340 mm, Gewicht: 9420 g

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. Each text, edited in modern spelling, 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. The Edition as a whole explicates Jonson's 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. For further information and free access to The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, please visit https://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/benjonson/

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jonson, Ben

Bevington, David

Butler, Martin

Donaldson, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Contributors; 2. Alphabetical listing of the contents; 3. Index of titles and first lines of the poems; 4. Maps and illustrations; 5. Acknowledgements; 6. General introduction The General Editors; 7. Life of Ben Jonson Ian Donaldson; 8. Actors, companies, and playhouses David Bevington; 9. The Court Masque Martin Butler; 10. Masquers and Tilter Martin Butler; 11. The printing and publishing of Ben Jonson's works David L. Gants and Tom Lockwood; 12. Abbreviations and common forms of citation; 13. Sigla used in the collations; 14. The complete works in seven volumes; 15. Bibliography Eugene Giddens, Karen Britland, Peter Culhane and Christopher Burlinson.

Über Autor(innen)

Bevington, David
David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

Donaldson, Ian
Ian Donaldson is Director in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Butler, Martin
Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds.

David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds.

Ian Donaldson is Director in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra.