Refashioning Ben Jonson Gender, Politics, and the Jonsonian Canon

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.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Refashioning Ben Jonson; Kate Chedgzoy, Julie Sanders & Susan Wiseman Jonson's 'Comicall Satires' and the Art of Courtly Compliment; Janet Clare 'Satyres, That Gird and Fart at the Time': Poetaster and the Essex Rebellion; Tom Cain Sejanus : Ethics and Politics in the Early Reign of James; Robert C.Evans Defacing the Carcass: Anne of Denmark and Jonson's The Masque of Blackness ; Clare McManus The Lone Wolf: Jonson's Epistle to Volpone ; Richard Dutton Making and Buying: Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre Audience; Kate McLuskie Hell for Lovers: Shades of Adultery in The Devil is an Ass ; Helen Ostovich Print, Popular Culture, Consumption, and Commodity in The Staple of News ; Julie Sanders The Eccho of Uncertainties: Jonson, Classical Drama, and the English Civil War; Susan Wiseman

TOM CAIN Head, Department of English, University of Newcastle JANET CLARE Lecturer in English, University College, Dublin RICHARD DUTTON Professor of English, Lancaster University ROBERT C. EVANS Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, Auburn University, Montgomery KATE MCLUSKIE Professor of English, University of Southampton CLARE MCMANUS Postgraduate student, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick HELEN OSTOVICH Associate Professor of English, McMaster University.