by Ben Jonson · Nick Hern Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781854592682
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«The Devil is an Ass» is Ben Jonson's satirical comedy, published by Nick Hern Books in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Satirical comedy of Elizabethan/Jacobean theatre in which Ben Jonson ironically portrays human nature and seventeenth-century society. The play, rarely performed, stands out for Ben Jonson's comic treatment of the vices of the era.
This edition belongs to the Drama Classics collection, produced in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The original text dates from 1616.
The work is of interest to theatre students and readers interested in classical literature and Elizabethan theatre.
Ben Jonson was an English actor, poet and playwright. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614), and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I."
