Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Note on texts and dating
1: Prologue: The Biographer's Bones
2: Scotland 1618-1619
3: Debatable Land 1542-1572
4: Influences 1572-1588
5: Conflicts 1588-1592
6: Entering the Theatre 1594-1597
7: Saved by the Book 1597-1598
8: Global Satire 1598-1601
9: The Wolf's Black Jaw 1601-1603
10: Scots, Plots, and Panegyrics 1603-1605
11: Following the Plot 1606-7
12: Communities 1607-1612
13: City, Theatre, Court 1610-1612
14: Travels 1611-1613
15: Fame 1613-1616
16: Money 1614-1617
17: Scholarship 1619-1630
18: Lateness 1619-1637
19: Remembrance with Posterity
Acknowledgements

About the Author

Ian Donaldson is a General Editor, with David Bevington and Martin Butler, of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (Print Edition, 7 volumes, 2011; Electronic Edition, 2012). His previous OUP books include The World Upside-Down: Comedy From Jonson to Fielding (1970), Ben Jonson: Selected Works (Oxford Authors, 1985), Jonson's Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation (OUP, 1997). He has taught at the Universities of
Oxford (tutorial Fellow in English at Wadham College, 1962-9), Edinburgh (Regius Professor of English, 1991-5), and Cambridge (Fellow of King's College, 1995-2005, and Grace 1 Professor of English, 1995-2001), and at the Australian
National University, Canberra (Professor of English, 1969-91). He was founding Director of the ANU's Humanities Research Centre (1974-90, 2004-7) and of Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH, 2001-3).

Reviews

`an indispensable account of Jonsonâs life and cultural milieu.'
Paul Hammond, The Seventeenth Century
`At last we have a biography worthy of the richness and complexity of Jonson's life, with all its concealments and ambivalences. This book illuminates the man, the huge range of his writings, and the extraordinary events through which he lived and about which he provided such carefully coded commentaries.'
JOHN MORRILL FBA, Professor of British and Irish History, University of Cambridge