Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics and the Jonsonian Canon

Book Description
This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the process. It includes original essays by both established and emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist, and queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to encourage new approaches by students to this central figure from the Renaissance.


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Refashioning Ben Jonson casts new light on the canonical Renaissance dramatist and contemporary of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson. This collection of essays by both established and up-and-coming scholars of the early modern period adopts a diverse range of approaches in order to revise, review, and reshape readings of Jonson's dramatic writings, both those for the elite space of the Jacobean and Caroline courts and those for the public theatres of seventeenth-century London.

About the Author
Julie Sanders is Lecturer in English at the University of Keele. Kate Chedgzoy and Susan Wiseman are both Lecturers in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.



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Essays by established and newer scholars employ different approaches to the work of the canonical Renaissance dramatist. They reconsider plays in light of their political and historical contexts, and offer readings derived from materialist, feminist, and queer critical practice. Works discussed include Volpone, Poetaster, The Devil is an Ass, and The Staple of News. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


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