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This volume offers a generous selection of works from each of Browning’s creative periods, emphasizing the years in which the memorable dramatic monologues were written. The experimental phase (1833-45) is represented by selections from Pauline (1833), Paracelsus (1835), Sordello (1840), Dramatic Lyrics (1842), and Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845), as well as by the complete text of Pippa Passes; the major phase (1855-69) by selections from Men and Women (1855), Dramatis Personae (1864), and The Ring and the Book (1868–69), of which Books V, VI, and X are reprinted; and the later achievement (after 1870) by selections from Fifine at the Fair (1872), Aristophanes’ Apology (1875), Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems (1876), Jocoseria (1883), Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in Their Day (1887), and Asolando: Fancies and Facts (1889). Browning’s Introductory Essay to the Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852) is also included. The annotations are designed to prov

Comprehensively revised and updated, this Second Edition of Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques includes three of Jonson's most important plays-Volyoue, Epicoeue, and The Alchemist and three masques--Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, and, new to the Second Edition, The Masque of Blackness, Jonson's first masque and one with particular interest to our own culture. Each work is accompanied by expanded textual annotations. New to this edition is a section on "Backgrounds and Sources," which gives selections from some of the principal texts that influenced Volpone and The Alchemist, such as those by gilliam Caxton, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Erasmus. Also included is helpful material about the history of alchemy. "Jonson on His Work" collects statements by the author on drama and poetry taken from his plays, from Discoveries, and from Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. "Contemporary Readers on Jonson" includes tributes and poems about Jon

David McCullough depicts the events of that fateful year with breathtaking imagination and flare, from the British decision to crush the Americans to the bitter setbacks and astonishing advances made by tile patriot army. Whether King George Ill and George Washington or ordinary soldiers and their families,McCullough re-creates a cast of amazingcharacters on both sides, destroys myths and uses eyewitness reports to brilliant effect, making 1776 the most compelling account of this seismic confilict.