London: Chattto & Windus, 1962 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xii, 346 (2) pp. Reprinted, 1962. Price clipped. Faintly faded spine dj. lightly age-toned text block edges, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white, and bright. 5.75" x 8.75". Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust Jacket in removable acetate protector. foreword, Introduction: Shakespeare and Profit Inflations; The Background: I. The Inherited Economic Order under Elizabeth; II The Development of Capitalist Enterprise; III. New Elements in the National Life; IV. Social Theory. The Dramatists: V Drama and Society; VI. Tradition and Ben Jonson; VII. Jonson and the Anti-Acquisitive Attitude; VIII. Dekker, Heywood and Citizen Morality; IX. Middleton and the New Social Classes; X. The Significance of Messinger's Social Comedies: With a Note on 'Decadence'; Appendix: A. Elizabethan Prose; B. 17th-Century Melancholy; bibliography, index..

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005443
Title: Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson
Author: Knights, L. C
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Chattto & Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1962
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM DRAMA 17TH CENTURY NATIONAL LIFE SOCIETY AND SOCIAL THEORY CRITICISM AND INTERPRETATION
Size: Large Octavo

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...