Table of Contents

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.

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This collection highlights exciting new areas of research related to Ben Jonson, including book history, social history and cultural geography.

About the Author

Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Ben Jonson's Theatrical Republics (1998) and has recently edited The New Inn for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson.

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