The Devil Is an Ass: And Other Plays Book

I only read The Devil is an Ass, so I'll stick to discussing that. I found it to be an okay play, but I feel like Jonson's desire to make it seem realistic heavily detracted from my enjoyment. The random asides and discussions of events outside the play add to the verisimilitude, but they make the text too dense for me to really enjoy reading it. I find this sad, because there's certainly the core of a fun and funny play here - it's just buried too deep for me to really like it. Also, the fact that Pug, the devil character, doesn't get much time on stage is disappointing. I'm fine with him not doing that much, but I wish he was there more to at least give his thoughts on what's going on, as the times when he does do this are fairly good. Over all, I wouldn't really recommend reading this play, but I feel like it might be more enjoyable if I were to see it staged. Finally, I wasn't a huge fan of this edition as I feel like it could have used more notes - I think part of my lack of enjoyment may be because it was rather difficult to understand some parts of the dialogue.