Helen Ostovich

This edition of Ben Jonson's four comedies, Volpone, Epicoene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, places the works in the popular history and culture of the times (1605-1614), and surveys the influences, classical and contemporary, on Jonson as a playwright. Brief introductions to each play discuss local settings, sources, theatre history, and suggest further reading. The introduction includes a biography of...