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Ben Jonson: selected masques

edited by Stephen Orgel

(The Yale Ben Jonson)

Yale University Press, 1970

  • : pbk

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Selected from the author's The complete masques

A select bibliography (p. 375-377)

Contents of Works

  • Hymenaei
  • The masque of queens
  • Oberon
  • Love restored
  • Mercury vindicated from the alchemists at court
  • The golden age restored
  • The vision of delight
  • Pleasure reconciled to virtue
  • News from the new world discovered in the moon
  • Pan's anniversary
  • The gypsies metamorphosed
  • Neptune's triumph for the return of Albion
  • The fortunate isles, and their union
  • Love's triumph through Callipolis
  • Chloridia

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780300012590

Description

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. Because its flexibility provided a forum for his dramatic imagination, Jonson was able to resolve and transcend the satiric vision that was in many ways the substance of his drama. He instructed as well as applauded his courtly audience and, with the aid of the great theatrical designer Inigo Jones, brought unity to the diverse elements of the masque, infusing them with a moral and poetic life. In early 1969, Yale University Press published The Complete Masques, the first one-volume edition and the most carefully edited and annotated text available. A modernized version, the 576 page Complete Masques 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. 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 illusionistic stage. Mr. Orgel is associate professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.
Volume

ISBN 9780300013801

Description

Renaissance court masques involved music, dance, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects. The form was transformed by Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. Includes Jonson's own notes and glosses, explanatory notes, and critical commentary. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA25246831
  • ISBN
    • 0300013809
    • 0300012594
  • LCCN
    76118734
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Haven
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 377 p
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Classification
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