by Ben Jonson · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780192817822
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«Five Plays» is a collection of plays by the English dramatist Ben Jonson, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (628 pages, in English).
The volume brings together five plays by Ben Jonson: Every Man in his Humour, Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair. The texts appear modernized and annotated, and together show the breadth and complexity of Jonson's theatre.
This edition belongs to Oxford's World's Classics series and was prepared by G. A. Wilkes, with full annotations.
Aimed at literature students and readers interested in classical English theatre, especially in the dramatic work of Ben Jonson.
Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."
