Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques: Authoritative Texts of Volpone, Epicoene, the Alchemist, the Masque of Blackness, Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court, Pleasure reconciled: Jonson, Ben; Harp, Richard; Harp, Richard: 9780393976380: Book: : eCampus.com

This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.

Preface

vii

The Staging of Jonson's Plays and Masques

Robert M. Adams

A Note on the Texts

xvii

The Texts of the Plays and Masques

Volpone

(108)

Epicoene

111

(89)

The Alchemist

200

(114)

The Masque of Blackness

314

(11)

Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court

325

(8)

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

333

(12)

Contexts

Jonson on His Work

345

(1)

Discourses on Poetry

345

(5)

From Every Man in His Humour (first version, 1598)

345

(1)

Prologue to Every Man in His Humour (second version, 1616)

346

(1)

Prologue to Cynthia's Revels

347

(1)

From Poetaster

348

(1)

From ``Epistle Dedicatory'' to Volpone

349

(1)

Jonson's Shoptalk

350

(17)

From Discoveries

350

(5)

From Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

355

(4)

Contemporary Readers on Jonson

359

(1)

On Ben Jonson

359

(1)

Sidney Godolphin

Upon Ben Jonson

360

(1)

Edmund Waller

From To the Memory of Ben. Jonson

361

(1)

Jasper Mayne

To Ben Jonson upon Occasion of His Note of Defiance Annexed to His Play of The New Inn

362

(5)

Thomas Carew

Backgrounds and Sources

367

(141)

Volpone

367

(1)

Beast Fable

367

(9)

Middle English Bestiary Natura Wulpis

367

(2)

How Corbant the Crow Made Complaint against the Fox for the Death of his Wife

369

(1)

William Caxton

The Nun's Priest's Tale

370

(5)

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Crow and the Fox

375

(1)

La Fontaine

Legacy Hunting

376

(132)

Satire 2.5

376

(5)

Horace

The Alchemist

381

(1)

The Alchemy Swindle

381

(8)

Erasmus

[Alchemy: Definitions and Background]

389

(10)

Stanton J. Linden

Criticism

The Double Plot in Volpone

399

(12)

Jonas A. Barish

Thomas Sutton: Jonson's Volpone?

411

(10)

Robert C. Evans

[Names in Jonson's Comedies]

421

(8)

Anne Barton

Examen of The Silent Woman

429

(5)

John Dryden

Epicoene

434

(9)

Robert Watson

The Alchemist

443

(16)

Edward B. Partridge

[Jonson's Magic House]

459

(9)

Ian Donaldson

Ben Jonson's Comic Apocalypse

468

(9)

Richard Harp

[The Imagery of The Masque of Blackness]

477

(5)

D. J. Gordon

[The Masque of Blackness]

482

(7)

Stephen Orgel

Mythic Interpretations of Ideas in Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

489

(10)

John Mulryan

Pleasure and Virtue Reconciled

499

(9)

Leah S. Marcus

A Chronology

508

(3)

Ben Jonson

Selected Bibliography

511




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