This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume.
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Stage directions hvae been added to facilitate the reconstruction of the plays' performance, and there is a scholarly introduction, detailed annotation, and a glossary.
Under the General Editorship of Michael Cordner of the University of York the texts of the Plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
In Bartholomew Fair (1614) Jonson embroils the visitors to the fair in its myriad tempations, exposing the materialistic impulses beneath the apparent godliness of Jacobean Puritans.
The Alchemist (1610) deploys the metaphors of alchemical transformation to emphasize the mutability of the characters and their relationships.
The first production of Epicene marked the end of a year long closure of the theatres because of an epidemic of the plague in 1609; its comedy affirms the consolatory power of laughter at such a time.
Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice.
This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume
