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A Tale of a Tub

A Tale of a Tub
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2015-07-17
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ISBN: 9781515119715

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A Tale of a Tub is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Ben Jonson. The last of his plays to be staged during his lifetime, A Tale of a Tub was performed in 1633 and published in 1640 in the second folio of Jonson's works. The plot, which unfolds on St. Valentine's Day, concerns the inept attempts of a variety of suitors to win the hand of Audrey Turfe, the daughter of a Middlesex constable. To break Audrey's engagement to John Clay the tilemaker, Squire Tub, a romantic rival, has the man falsely accused of theft. As Constable Turfe pursues the innocent man, yet another suitor, Justice Preamble, plays a comparable ruse against Squire Tub. All told, Audrey is chased after by four separate suitors, and apparently she has no particular preference among them. (She hesitates to accept Squire Tub, however, because of the social gap between them: "He's too fine for me, and has a Lady / Tub to his mother.") Amid the disorder, Pol-Marten, Lady Tub's usher, marries Audrey before the others realize it. Their marriage is celebrated with a wedding masque, also titled "A Tale of a Tub," which retells the story of the play. (In the colloquial usage of the time, a "tale of a tub" is the same as "a cock and bull story.")


Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson
Author: Ben Jonson
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 1966
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Ben Jonson's A Tale of a Tub

Ben Jonson's A Tale of a Tub
Author: David Bruce
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Release: 2022-07-10
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This is a retelling of Ben Jonson's A TALE OF A TALE in modern English. Reading this retelling first will make reading the original play much earlier. Do you know a language other than English? If you do, I give you permission to translate this book, copyright your translation, publish or self-publish it, and keep all the royalties for yourself. (Do give me credit, of course, for the original retelling.) I would like to see my retellings of classic literature used in schools, so I give permission to the country of Finland (and all other countries) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to the state of Texas (and all other states) to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. I also give permission to all teachers to buy one copy of this eBook and give copies to all students forever. Teachers need not actually teach my retellings. Teachers are welcome to give students copies of my eBooks as background material. For example, if they are teaching Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, teachers are welcome to give students copies of my Virgil's Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose and tell students, "Here's another ancient epic you may want to read in your spare time."


A Tale of a Tub

A Tale of a Tub
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1913
Genre: English drama
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A Tale of a Tub

A Tale of a Tub
Author: Florence May Snell
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780267822348

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Excerpt from A Tale of a Tub: Ben Jonson Finally, I desire to take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation of the unfailing courtesy and cordiality of the vast student - body whom we call the Men of Yale, without which the opportunities which Yale University so generously throws open to women could not be what they now are, the crowning joy of student-days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.