The New Inn (Revels Plays Companion Library) - Hardcover

Jonson, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719015308 ISBN 13: 9780719015304

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1986

Synopsis

The New Inn prevails in the minds of students of English literature: first, as to the authors relations with the public at the time of its presentation; and secondly, as to the relation in which the play stands to the poets other comedies. Jonson himself, and his partisans, as well as his detractors, have been responsible for the prominence which has been given to the damning of the piece; and the event has been so magnified and distorted that the only picture which is conjured up, when the name of this comedy is mentioned, is one of poor old Ben, driven from the boards by the jeers of personal enemies. Inconsistently linked with this is the idea that the play, thus unmercifully hissed off the stage by the dramatists foes, was a work of imbecility and dotage: a play written when the palsy, laying hold upon his powers, led to the production of a monstrosity wholly unlike the other offspring of the poets brain. In the Introduction I have discussed the known facts concerning the presentation of The New I nn, and have reviewed the evidence which goes to show that the reception of this play differed but little from that of contemporary productions similarly lacking in the qualities essential to dramatic success ;that the events of the first night were not particularly exciting to any one but Ben Jonson ;and that no personal note sounded in the uproar with which the drama was greeted.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719015308
• ISBN 13: 9780719015304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Hattaway Michael