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This edition analyzes four of Jonson's works, including Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour, and Bartholomew Fair.
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This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.
'Compelling... Riggs's approach to the man-as-artist is to see him as a paradox, a man of reckless defiance who boasted openly about his womanizing and criminal record, and who nonetheless represented himself in Renaissance England as the great model of a self-restrained and chastely austere classical style of writing... David Riggs's eminently readable and generously illustrated study not only fully justifies our curiosity, but handles with admirable tact what might be lurid and sensational if our only interest were the gossip.'New York Times Book Review