The Staple of News: by Ben Jonson (The Revels Plays) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719059062 ISBN 13: 9780719059063

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new GBP9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at the moment. Professor Anthony Parr has a proven track record with the Three Jacobean Travel Plays (now in paperback at GBP14.99). The complete canon of Ben Jonson is being brought back into print in the Revels. The play itself is one of Jonson's best and has a prescient storyline about journalism being traduced and becoming entertainment instead of remaining factual. -- .

About this title

Synopsis:

A lively and ambitious satire in which Ben Jonson takes a stand on various developments in later Jacobean society. It offers a modernised text based on a collation of the 1631-40 folio, together with an introduction and a commentary which sets Jonson's art in its social and intellectual context.

About the Author:

Anthony Parr is Professor of English at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa -- .

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0719059062
• ISBN 13: 9780719059063
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• Editor: Parr Tony