Ben Jonson in Context (Literature in Context)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 6/3/2010
EAN 9780521895712, ISBN10: 0521895715

Hardcover, 392 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Bringing together a group of established and emergent Jonson scholars, this volume reacts to major advances in thinking about the writer and his canon of works. The study is divided into two distinct parts: the first considers the Jonsonian career and output from biographical, critical, and performance-based angles; the second looks at cultural and historical contexts building on rich interdisciplinary work. Social historians work alongside literary critics to provide a diverse and varied account of Jonson. These are less standard surveys of the field than vibrant interventions into current critical debates. The short-essay format of the collection seeks less to harmonize and homogenize than to raise awareness of new avenues of research on Jonson, including studies informed by book history, cultural geography, the law and legal discourse, the history of science and interests in material culture.

Introduction
Timeline Sarah Grandage
Part I. Life, Works, and Afterlife
1. Tales of a life Richard Dutton
2. Jonson in the Elizabethan period Matthew Steggle
3. Jonson in the Jacobean period Andrew McRae
4. Jonson in the Caroline period Martin Butler
5. Genre Katherine Eisaman Maus
6. Friends, collaborators, and rivals Michelle O'Callaghan
7. Jonson and Shakespeare Mark Robson
8. Editions and editors Eugene Giddens
9. Critical reception James Loxley
10. Performance afterlives Lois Potter
Part II. Cultural and Historical Contexts
11. London and urban space Adam Zucker
12. The Globe and the open air amphitheatres Tiffany Stern
13. The Whitefriars and the children's companies Lucy Munro
14. The Blackfriars Theatre and the indoor theatres Janette Dillon
15. Provinces, parishes, and neighbourhoods Steve Hindle
16. The court Malcolm Smuts
17. Masques, courtly and provincial Karen Britland
18. Music David Lindley
19. Dance Barbara Ravelhofer
20. Manuscript culture and reading practices James Knowles
21. Print culture and reading practices Alan B. Farmer
22. Visual culture John Peacock
23. The body Ben Morgan
24. Law, crime, and punishment Lorna Hutson
25. Religion Julie Maxwell
26. Politics Andrew Hadfield
27. Rank Clare McManus
28. Households Kate Chedgzoy
29. Foreign travel and exploration Rebecca Ann Bach
30. Domestic travel and social mobility Julie Sanders
31. Money and consumerism Christopher Burlinson
32. Land Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.
33. Patronage Helen Ostovich
34. Architecture Mimi Yiu
35. Food Robert Appelbaum
36. Alchemy, magic, and the sciences Margaret Healy
37. Clothing and identity Eleanor Lowe
38. Gender and sexuality Mario DiGangi
Further reading.