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Ben Jonson: Sejanus By Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson: Sejanus by Ben Jonson


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Complete text of play first performed in 1603. Modernized English text, explanatory and critical notes, and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson Edition.

Ben Jonson: Sejanus Summary

Ben Jonson: Sejanus by Ben Jonson

One of Jonson's greatest plays, Sejanus, has seldom been edited, and is here published, with full notes and introduction, for the first time since 1911. Mr. Barish shows that Jonsonian tragedy can be understood and appreciated only by clearing the mind of Shakespearean preconceptions. The present edition makes the play available in a modernized text, explanatory notes gloss obscure phrases ignored by previous editors, and critical notes contain extracts in English translation of the portions of Tacitus on which Jonson based his plot. The critical introduction analyzes Jonson's technique of metamorphosing history into poetry. Yale Ben Jonson, 3.Mr. Barish is associate professor of English at the University of California.

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NLS9780300094695
9780300094695
0300094698
Ben Jonson: Sejanus by Ben Jonson
New
Paperback
Yale University Press
1965-03-11
224
N/A
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