ben jonson edited mares (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. paperback, 180pp, owner's name on title page, text clean and tight, cover edges slightly rubbed, Good condition. ISBN: 0416718302.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Reprint. The Alchemist, written after Volpone and preceding Bartholomew Fair, has neither the full primitive moralism of the former nor the genial acceptance of the latter. Johnson's concern with the manipulation of human greed, gullibility and vanity forms the central theme, and in his introduction the editor of this edition draws attention to the play's contemporary relevance as well as setting it in its early seventeenth-century context.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).