The Devil Is an Ass - Drama Classics

Ben Jonson, Simon Trussler, Royal Shakespeare Company

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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price

Pug, a junior demon, persuades his master Satan to let him spend a day in London. Taking over the body of a recently hanged thief, Pug becomes servant to a squire from Norfolk, Fitzdottrel, who doesn't believe that Pug is a devil but is happy that he asks no wages.

Ben Jonson's comedy The Devil is an Ass was first performed by the King's Men in 1616.

This edition of The Devil is an Ass in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited by Peter Happé, and introduced by Simon Trussler.

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Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN:	9781854592682
Publisher:	Nick Hern Books
Imprint:	Nick Hern Books
Pub date:	22 Jun 1995
DEWEY:	822.3
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	136
Weight:	142g
Height:	107mm
Width:	159mm
Spine width:	6mm