Re-Presenting Ben Jonson

Text, History, Performance

AvMartin Butler

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

Del i serien Early Modern Literature in History

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Beskrivning

Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11 volume Oxford text of his "Works", edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-1952). In this edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness. This collection of essays by 12 scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford edition, and generated a Jonson whose "Works" and career look quite different. Addressing the competing needs of future readers, teachers and performers, it asks how this reconceptualized Jonson might best be transmitted into the next century. The volume also includes a new Jonson text, "The Entertainment at Britain's Burse", written in 1609 to celebrate the royal opening of the Earl of Salisbury's commercial development in the Strand. Discovered in 1996, this is a significant addition to Jonson's canon.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-07-13
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Early Modern Literature in History
Antal sidor:255
Upplaga:1999
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9780333720417

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DAVID BEVINGTON Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of ChicagoMICHAEL CORDNER Reader in the Department of English and Related Literature, University of YorkHUGH CRAIG Department of English, University of Newcastle, N.S.W., AustraliaKEVIN DONOVAN Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State UniversityROBERT C. EVANS University Alumni Professor, Auburn University, MontgomeryDAVID L. GANTS Lecturer in Literature, University of GeorgiaJAMES KNOWLES Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle upon TyneJOSEPH LOEWENSTEIN Associate Professor of English, Washington University, St. LouisHELEN OSTOVICH Associate Professor of English, McMaster University, CanadaLOIS POTTER Ned B. Allen Professor of English, University of DelawareBLAIR WORDEN Professor of Early Modern History, University of Sussex

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List of Plates List of Figures List of Contributors Prefatory Note Introduction: from Workes to Texts; M.Butler Why Re-edit Herford and Simpson?; D.Bevington The Printing, Proofing and Press-correction of Jonson's Folio Workes ; D.L. Gants Forms of Authority in the Early Texts of Every Man Out of His Humour ; K.Donovan 'To Behold the Scene Full': Every Man Out of His Humour ; H.Ostovich Personal Material: Jonson and Book-Burning; J.Loewenstein Jonson's Entertainment at Britain's Burse : J.Knowles Politics in Catiline : Jonson and His Sources; B.Worden Zeal-of-the-Land Busy Restored; M.Cordner The Swan Song of the Stage Historian; L.Potter Jonsonian Chronology and the Styles of A Tale of a Tub ; H.Craig Jonsonian Allusions; R.C. Evans Index