Martin (Hrsg.) Butler

Ben Jonson and Posterity

ISBN: 978-1-108-90663-0
EAN: 9781108906630
Produktnummer: 35947172
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 0 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Reception, Reputation, Legacy

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Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate… Mehr