The Devil is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616 and first published in 1631.
The Devil is an Ass followed Bartholomew Fair (1614), one of the author's greatest works, and marks the start of the final phase of his dramatic career. However just or unjust may be the characterization of Jonson's later plays as his "dotages," there would be no more great works after Bartholomew Fair, and a full decade would elapse between The Devil is an Ass and Jonson's next play, The Staple of News.
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