First published in 1864, Dramatis Personæ is the second of the two great collections of Robert Browning's middle years, following Men and Women nine years previously. An extraordinary imaginative and technical achievement, the poems are remarkable for their modernity of subject matter and close psychological interest.
Now appearing in its first English translation, Theuerdank introduces readers to the fascinating world of the Renaissance. A forerunner of the graphic novel, Theuerdank, first published in 1517, includes over 100 woodcuts executed by leading artists of Central Europe.
This edition brings Jonson's three major publications, Epigrams (1616), The Forest (1616), and Underwood (1641) together with his large body of uncollected poems to create the largest collection of Jonsons verse that has been published.