Ben Jonson and Posterity

Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds. He is one of the general editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, 7 volume set (Cambridge, 2012). His publications include The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008). Jane Rickard is a Senior Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James (Cambridge, 2015) and Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I (2007), and co-edited Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (with Richard Meek and Richard Wilson, 2008).

Introduction. Immortal Ben Jonson Martin Butler and Jane Rickard; Part I. Conceptualising Jonson: 1. Popular Jonson James Loxley; 2. Pedantic Ben Jonson Adam Zucker; 3. Corporeal Jonson Jean E. Howard; Part II. Jonson's Early Reception: 4. Seventeenth-Century Readers of Jonson's 1616 Works Jane Rickard; 5. Jonson's Ghost and the Restoration Stage Jennie Challinor; 6. Jonson and the Friends of Liberty Tom Lockwood; Part III. Jonsonian Afterlives: 7. Anecdotal Jonson Paul Menzer; 8. Jonson in the Shadows Stephen Orgel; 9. Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones Richard O'Brien; 10. Jonson and Modern Memory Martin Butler; Afterword. Re-making Jonson in the digital world; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary? Julie Sanders.