This edition analyzes four of Jonson's works, including Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour, and Bartholomew Fair.

The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light.

The story of Jonson's life provides a broad view of the literary procession in early modern England and the milieu in which Elizabethan drama was produced.

The volume is informed by the latest development in Jonson scholarship and will therefore appeal to scholars and teachers as well as newcomers to his work.

Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England.

This abridged collection contains the most important of the works included in the large edition, and Mr. Orgel’s introduction which discusses Jonson’s development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones’s development of the ...

On-page commentary notes gloss the text in greater detail, making this the ideal edition for study and classroom use.

The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia covers in detail the works, life, and times of this seminal figure of the English Renaissance.

This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.