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| #1365967 in Books | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama | 2003-02-28 | 2003-02-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.81 x.44 x5.06l,.40 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| John Dryden famously said that he admired Jonson while he loved Shakespeare. But|By Andrew Louis Black|In what can only be seen as a back-handed compliment, John Dryden famously said that he admired Jonson while he loved Shakespeare. But, man, is there a lot to admire. Taking the challenge of Aristotle's unities to its fullest extent, Jonson's ALCHEMIST is a masterpiece of comi||
...a solid and useful book. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England |
Volphone's reverential prayer to his heaps of gold launches the sharpest, funniest play about money and morals in the 17th century - a play still wickedly relevant on the same topics four centuries later. Ben Jonson's comedy depicts selfishness thinly veiled by sanctimonious speeches, lust and possessiveness poorly disguised as love and marriage, and cynical legalism passing itself off as pure justice, alongside snobbery, class warfare and greed. The wily protagonists...
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