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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.

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Author:   Martin Butler (University of Leeds) ,  Jane Rickard (University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781108842686

ISBN 10:   1108842682
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   08 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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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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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 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).

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