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Key Features: * Study methods * Introduction to the text * Summaries with critical notes * Themes and techniques * Textual analysis of key passages * Author biography *...
Contents
Introduction to Ben Jonson
Summaries of plot
Commentary on themes and morals, structure, characters, rhetoric, imagery and irony
Hints for study
Suggestions for further reading
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