Methuen Drama, 2007

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 32, Roles: Total (31), Female (8), Male (23), Unassigned (0)

...Jonson’s exuberant comedy uses the carnival energy of Bartholmew Fair, an actual fair held in a disreputable suburb of London, to dramatize, satirize and celebrate the appetites and comic frailties of the human body...

Methuen Drama, 1995

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (23), Female (8), Male (15), Unassigned (0)

...A collaboration between Jonson, Chapman and Marston, Eastward Ho! is a masterpiece of city comedy. Unique among the ‘coterie’ city comedies written for boy players, Eastward Ho! gives all classes a full satiric treatment simultaneously...

Methuen Drama, 2002

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 30, Roles: Total (15), Female (7), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Jonson’s buzzing satire on gender and language enjoyed enormous prestige for more than a century after its first performance. The central figure is Morose, who hates noise yet lives in the centre of London, and who, because of his decision...

Nick Hern Books, 1995

Drama Classics

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 38, Roles: Total (21), Female (5), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

...Ben Jonson's play The Devil is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy first performed in 1616 by the King's Men and first published in 1631. The play opens in Hell, with a junior demon called Pug persuading his master Satan to let...

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...Volpone has long been a popular choice as a set text for students. Written by Ben Jonson, it was first produced in 1606 and billed as a comedy, although it also includes elements of tragedy and even animal fable (Volpone is Italian...

Methuen Drama, 2003

New Mermaids

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 39, Roles: Total (20), Female (3), Male (16), Unassigned (1)

...Volpone is the sharpest, funniest play about money and morals in the seventeenth century – a play still wickedly relevant four centuries later. Jonson’s comedy depicts selfishness thinly veiled by sanctimonious speeches, lust...