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Ben Jonson and Posterity
Reception, Reputation, Legacy

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Martin Butler, Jane Rickard, James Loxley, Adam Zucker, Jean E. Howard, Jennie Challinor, Tom Lockwood, Paul Menzer, Stephen Orgel, Richard O'Brien, Julie Sanders
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  • Date Published: November 2022
  • availability: Available
  • 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.

    • 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.

  • Editors

    Martin Butler, University of Leeds
    Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds. He is one of the general editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, 7 volume set (Cambridge, 2012). His publications include The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008).

    Jane Rickard, University of Leeds
    Jane Rickard is a Senior Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James (Cambridge, 2015) and Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I (2007), and co-edited Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (with Richard Meek and Richard Wilson, 2008).

    Contributors

    Martin Butler, Jane Rickard, James Loxley, Adam Zucker, Jean E. Howard, Jennie Challinor, Tom Lockwood, Paul Menzer, Stephen Orgel, Richard O'Brien, Julie Sanders

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