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

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

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.

Ian Donaldson's new biography draws on freshly discovered writings by and about Ben Jonson, and locates his work within the social and intellectual contexts of his time. Donaldson depicts a life full of drama.

This volume offers an abundant and representative selection of the verse of Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets.

This 2002 book examines the emergence of possessive authorship within a complex industrial and cultural field.

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