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Ben Jonson by Ben Jonson
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $4.64In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
Volpone by Ben Jonson
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.79Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Ben Jonson's comedy, one of the finest of the Jacobean era. Volpone is a Venetian aristocrat, a loveable rogue who enjoys the... -
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $4.86Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Face, Subtle and Dol Common are three rogues intent on conning the gullible out of their money. Setting up a quack-doctor's practice... -
The Alchemist Ben Jonson 9780785841722
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Complete and unabridged, with an introduction by Felix E. Schelling and a new timeline of the life and times of Ben Jonson, this elegantly designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Alchemist is an... -
Five Plays by Ben Jonson 9780199555772
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The five plays in this collection are Everyman in his Humour, the tragedy Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair. They represent the full range and complexity of Jonson's art as a... -
Epigrams and the Forest by Ben Jonson 9781857547054
Booksplease Price: $19.26Ben Jonson is overshadowed as a dramatist by Shakespeare, his great contemporary. As a poet, however, he stands high. His polished urbanity, direct expression and classicism have been especially... -
Volpone, Or, The Fox Ben Jonson 9781350115422
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.22Volpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonson's great parable of greed, self-interest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satirize the wealthy and the greedy, it remains one of his most distinctive and... -
Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who... -
Masque of Blacknesse. Masque of Beauty. by Ben Jonson
Booksplease Price: $7.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849021135Author Ben JonsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint -
Epicoene or the Silent Woman by Ben Jonson 9780713666687 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.80'A silent and loving woman is a gift of the lord' This 'excellent comedy of affliction' enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance: for John Dryden it had 'the... -
Imitation and Praise in the Poems of Ben Jonson by Richard S. Peterson 9781032925950
RRP: $54.93Booksplease Price: $52.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Alchemist Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA) 9781472532596
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one... -
A Study Guide for Ben Jonson's Song: To Celia by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375388368
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Bartholomew Fair (Revels Student Edition): By Ben Jonson by Suzanne Gossett 9780719051500
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Queen's Lender: If you liked The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell... by Jean Findlay 9781910895672
Booksplease Price: $13.55'Royal court intrigue at its finest.' - Historical Writers Association 'A stunning novel about the birth of the United Kingdom that demonstrates the scholarship of the author, as well as her... -
The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.73'Royal court intrigue at its finest.' - Historical Writers Association 'A stunning novel about the birth of the United Kingdom that demonstrates the scholarship of the author, as well as her... -
The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholemew Fair by Ben Jonson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in... -
An Examination of the Charges Maintained by Messrs. Malone, Chalmers and Others, of Ben Jonson's Enmity ... Towards Shakespeare by Octavius Graham Gilchrist 9780461143591
RRP: $16.01Booksplease Price: $14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461143591Author Octavius Graham GilchristFormat PaperbackPage Count 78< -
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley Wells
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Enjoyable, lively ... such a pleasure to read ... renders the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries more than fringe entertainment' Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English... -
Memoirs of Edward Alleyn: Including Some New Particulars Respecting Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, Marston, Dekker, &C by John Payne Collier 9780461236767
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461236767Author John Payne CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprin -
![Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9816709/10833269/9780330448246__00773.1782719803.jpg?c=1 "Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]")
Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.89Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works... -
![Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden 9781471134890 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9723634/10740298/9781471134890__43920.1781389817.jpg?c=1 "Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden 9781471134890 [USED COPY]")
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them by Holden 9781471134890 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $4.61GROWN MEN AREN'T SUPPOSED TO CRY.But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theatre and human rights - confess to being moved... -
Russian Black Magic: The Beliefs and Practices of Heretics and Blasphemers by Natasha Helvin 9781620558874
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.62A rare look into the history, theory, and craft of the black mages and sorcerers of Russia Born in the Soviet Union and descended from a matrilineal line of witches, Natasha Helvin offers a rare look... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church... -
Corsets and Crinolines by Norah Waugh 9781138665668
RRP: $52.25Booksplease Price: $51.98In this classic book, Norah Waugh explores the changing shapes of women's dress from the 1500s to the 1920s. Simple laced bodices became corsets of cane, whalebone and steel, while padding at... -
Operative Witchcraft: Spellwork and Herbcraft in the British Isles by Nigel Pennick 9781620558447
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05A comprehensive look at the history and practices of rural English witchcraft * Explores witch's familiars and fetches, animal magic, and the forms of witchcraft practiced by rural tradespeople, such... -
The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies by Thomas Dekker 9780199540105
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl Oxford... -
On Elizabeth Bishop by Colm Toibin 9780691154114
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.72In this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences--the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her... -
On Elizabeth Bishop Colm Tóibín 9780691271040
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Toibin offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most... -
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity by Prof Colin Burrow 9780198883463
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $34.46Imitating Authors is a major study of the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from antiquity to the present day. It extends from early Greek texts right up to... -
The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 by Gerald Eades Bentley 9780691612669
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $61.71This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular... -
Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity by Colin Burrow 9780199684793
Booksplease Price: $43.66OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
The Everyman Anthology Of Poetry For Children Gillian Avery 9781857159318
RRP: $16.75Booksplease Price: $12.66Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite... -
Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism by Gavin Alexander
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and... -
Metaphysical Poetry by Colin Burrow
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an... -
The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker 9780713668131
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was... -
Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each... -
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and... -
Throne of Blood by Robert N. Watson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.36Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson... -
Shakespeare and the Senses by Holly E. Dugan 9780866986960
Booksplease Price: $22.45A study of how audiences of Shakespeare's time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly natural as a smell, taste, sight, or sound be socially constructed and change...