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Ben Jonson: The Complete Masques

Ben Jonson: The Complete Masques

Orgel, Stephen
Jonson, Ben

Paperback

Series: Yale Ben Jonson

Fiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 030010538X
ISBN13: 9780300105384
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jun 1 1969
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.27 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. By using its peculiar viability as a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson resolved and transcended the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of Jonsonian drama. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Indigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. This modernized version of Jonson's masques is the most carefully edited and annotated text available; it is also the first one-volume edition to be published. It includes the faithful reprinting of Jonson's own glosses and notes, translated and annotated, as well as explanatory notes which offer the most detailed critical commentary ever undertaken. In the introduction, itself an important essay about the Renaissance stage, Mr. Orgel discusses Jonson's development of the masque in relation to Inigo Jones' development of the illusionistic stage.

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