Ben Jonson and Posterity
Reception, Reputation, Legacy
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- Editors:
- Martin Butler, University of Leeds
- Jane Rickard, University of Leeds
- Date Published: November 2022
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108822503
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Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.
Read more- Aligns leading scholars who have contributed to major editions and studies of Jonson in the past decade
- Explores questions regarding Jonson's reputation and reception over four centuries
- Cross-examines the history of Jonson's reputation and what it reveals about our relationship with the early modern past
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108822503
- length: 271 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction. Immortal Ben Jonson Martin Butler and Jane Rickard
Part I. Conceptualising Jonson:
1. Popular Jonson James Loxley
2. Pedantic Ben Jonson Adam Zucker
3. Corporeal Jonson Jean E. Howard
Part II. Jonson's Early Reception:
4. Seventeenth-Century Readers of Jonson's 1616 Works Jane Rickard
5. Jonson's Ghost and the Restoration Stage Jennie Challinor
6. Jonson and the Friends of Liberty Tom Lockwood
Part III. Jonsonian Afterlives:
7. Anecdotal Jonson Paul Menzer
8. Jonson in the Shadows Stephen Orgel
9. Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones Richard O'Brien
10. Jonson and Modern Memory Martin Butler
Afterword. Re-making Jonson in the digital world
or, Jonson, Our Contemporary? Julie Sanders.
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