Ben Jonson and Posterity: Reception, Reputation, Legacy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Ben Jonson and Posterity: Reception, Reputation, Legacy
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Martin Butler
Edited by Jane Rickard
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:271
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9781108822503
ClassificationsDewey:822.3
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 3 November 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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).