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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, minimale Randl�ren, kleiner Fleck auf Vorderschnitt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket rubbed, minimal edgewear, small stain on fore-edge, otherwise very good condition. - 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. Plays such as Volpone, Poetaster, Cynthia�s Revels, Catiline and Sejanus are reconsidered in their political and.historical contexts; others, such as The Devil is an Ass, Epicoene and The Staple of News, along with Jonson�s masques, are subjected to readings derived from materialist, feminist, and queer critical practice, and a lively collection of essays, many of them in dialogue and debate with each other, is the result. Jonson and the Jonsonian canon will seem different and newly exciting to future students of the early modern period as a result. / Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Refashioning Ben Jonson Kate Chedgzoy, Julie Sanders and Susan Wiseman 2 Jonson's 'Comical Satires' and the Art of Courtly Compliment Janet Clare 3 'Satyres, That Girde and Fart at the Time': Poetaster and the Essex Rebellion Tom Cain 4 Sejanus: Ethics and Politics in the Early Reign of James Robert C. Evans 5 'Defacing the Carcass': Anne of Denmark and Jonson's The Masque of Blackness Clare McManus 6 The Lone Wolf: Jonson's Epistle to Volpone Richard Dutton 7 Making and Buying: Ben Jonson and the Commercial Theatre Audience Kate McLuskie 8 Hell for Lovers: Shades of Adultery in The Devil is an Ass Helen Ostovich 9 Print, Popular Culture, Consumption and Commodification in The Staple of News Julie Sanders 10 'The Eccho of Uncertaintie': Jonson, Classical Drama and the English Civil War Susan Wiseman Index. ISBN 9780333670729