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Bringing together leading scholars and multiple critical perspectives, this collection provides new insights into Jonson's reception and legacy over four centuries, benefitting students and scholars of Jonson and early modern literary studies, as well as all those interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present.
Table des matières
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.
A propos de l'auteur
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).
Résumé
Bringing together leading scholars and multiple critical perspectives, this collection provides new insights into Jonson's reception and legacy over four centuries, benefitting students and scholars of Jonson and early modern literary studies, as well as all those interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present.
Préface
Explores the construction of Jonson's multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.
