by Ben Jonson · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140430134
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«Three Comedies» is Ben Jonson's theater volume bringing together Volpone, The Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair, published by Penguin Classics in paperback.
The three plays show Ben Jonson's satirical vein: Volpone and The Alchemist portray greed and deceit, while Bartholomew Fair captures the festive bustle of London in his time. Witty dialogues, grotesque characters and hilarious situations come together to expose the vices of Elizabethan society.
Edition edited by Michael Jamieson, with 496 pages and text in English. It belongs to the English Library collection of Penguin Classics; the work was originally published in 1966.
For lovers of classical theater and English literature, particularly Elizabethan comedy and 17th-century social satire.
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."
