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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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      Publisher: Nick Hern Books
      Publication Date: 22/06/1995
      ISBN13: 9781854592682, 978-1854592682
      ISBN10: 1854592688

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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