Refashioning Ben Jonson: Gender, Politics, and the Jonsonian Canon

by Julie Sanders (Editor), Kate Chedgzoy (Editor), Susan Wiseman (Editor)

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.

Genres: Literary Criticism

237 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[erynde · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read "Hell for Lovers: Shades of Adultery in The Devil is an Ass" by Helen Ostovich in this book for a research project. There were some very interesting ideas on the play and I can't wait to get to my research and include this article.