In Bartholomew Fair , Jonson satirizes the religious, social and political conflicts of Jacobean England. The play represents the climax to Jonson's great comic period. This edition includes glosses and notes intended to assist students, and examines elements of the play from a feminist viewpoint.

Contains poetry Ben Jonson, one of the greatest English playwrights of the 17th century and also a lyric poet. The poems included are: Epigrams , The Forest and Underwoods , On My First Son , Song to Celia , On Poet-Ape , and An Ode to Himself . They offer a celebration of both one man's life, and of an age.

Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene , this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. It includes The Shepeardes Calender , Complaints , and A Theatre for Wordlings .

Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts.

A comedy set in the lively London of Ben Jonson's day, depicting the life of the merchant Kitely, surrounded by his family acquaintances, rogues and a merry magistrate. The excessive humours of boastful vanity, marital jealousy, naivety and suspicion make for comic interplay between the characters.

This new edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy provides fresh information on the play, its author and the Jacobean text. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 161 version and takes the earlier version as copy-text .