Three Comedies
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the golden age of English Renaissance theatre comes a triumphant collection of dramatic genius — Ben Jonson's Three Comedies presents three of the playwright's most celebrated stage works: Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, each a razor-sharp satire of human greed, folly, and ambition set against the vivid backdrop of Jacobean London. With biting wit and masterful characterisation, Jonson chronicles the scheming, the duped, and the gloriously corrupt, crafting plots of such intricate cunning that audiences and readers alike are swept along in breathless, laughing disbelief. Jonson stands as Shakespeare's greatest contemporary and rival, and this collection illustrates precisely why his reputation has endured for four centuries — his language crackles with energy, his moral vision is as unsparing as it is comic, and his gallery of rogues and fools remains startlingly recognisable to the modern reader. A cornerstone of the English dramatic canon, Three Comedies is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full richness of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage — and to ask whether humanity has changed at all since Jonson held his merciless mirror up to it.
Author: Ben Jonson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the golden age of English Renaissance theatre comes a triumphant collection of dramatic genius — Ben Jonson's Three Comedies presents three of the playwright's most celebrated stage works: Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, each a razor-sharp satire of human greed, folly, and ambition set against the vivid backdrop of Jacobean London. With biting wit and masterful characterisation, Jonson chronicles the scheming, the duped, and the gloriously corrupt, crafting plots of such intricate cunning that audiences and readers alike are swept along in breathless, laughing disbelief. Jonson stands as Shakespeare's greatest contemporary and rival, and this collection illustrates precisely why his reputation has endured for four centuries — his language crackles with energy, his moral vision is as unsparing as it is comic, and his gallery of rogues and fools remains startlingly recognisable to the modern reader. A cornerstone of the English dramatic canon, Three Comedies is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full richness of the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage — and to ask whether humanity has changed at all since Jonson held his merciless mirror up to it.