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Published by Brand: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2003
ISBN 10: 0713654333ISBN 13: 9780713654332
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 0002-. Volphone's reverential prayer to his heaps of gold launches the sharpest, funniest play about money and morals in the 17th century - a play still wickedly relevant on the same topics four centuries later. Ben Jonson's comedy depicts selfishness thinly veiled by sanctimonious speeches, lust and possessiveness poorly disguised as love and marriage, and cynical legalism passing itself off as pure justice, alongside snobbery, class warfare and greed. The wily protagonists keep a dozen conventional plots spinning in the minds of their dupes, and when their amazing juggling act finally unravels, there are yet more twists - and an even deeper cynicisim - to the story. The play is partly a beast-fable: the wily fox, Volpone, plays dead to lure flesh-eating birds that he can then consume. But the beasts are the human race, and polite society the biggest, greediest scam of them all.This student edition contains a lengthy Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, critical interpretation and stage history.Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA. His publications include Critical Essays on Ben Jonson (as editor) and Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy. He also edited the New Mermaids edition of Every Man in His Humour.
Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 1998
ISBN 10: 0739409166ISBN 13: 9780739409169
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. "A masterwork" (Jeremy Kingston, The Times); "A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human motivation" (Paul Taylor, Independent) In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment, and ended in disaster. Why the German physicist Heisenberg went to Copenhagen in 1942 and what he wanted to say to the Danish physicist Bohr are questions which have exercised historians of nuclear physics ever since. In Michael Frayn's new play Heisenberg meets Bohr and his wife Margrethe once again to look for the answers, and to work out, just as they had once worked out the internal functioning of the atom, how we can ever know why we do what we do.
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 2009
ISBN 10: 1408113279ISBN 13: 9781408113271
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 2010
ISBN 10: 1408128950ISBN 13: 9781408128954
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Published by Brand: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2007
ISBN 10: 0713689447ISBN 13: 9780713689440
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408157012ISBN 13: 9781408157015
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 2011
ISBN 10: 1408134748ISBN 13: 9781408134740
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 1992
ISBN 10: 041366130XISBN 13: 9780413661302
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 2008
ISBN 10: 0713673788ISBN 13: 9780713673784
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 1978
ISBN 10: 0458934003ISBN 13: 9780458934003
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Published by Brand: Methuen Drama, 2007
ISBN 10: 0713677589ISBN 13: 9780713677584
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Published by Brand: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2013
ISBN 10: 140818348XISBN 13: 9781408183489
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