... of collective “imagining,” becomes fascinating to Ben Jonson in particular as something utterly fragile and yet vitally necessary for both productive and creative social order. Jonson’s drama Volpone (1606) demonstrates the ability of “credit culture” to sustain itself through theatrical effects of collective...

... of this tradition by the forces of commerce in The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Ladies of London , and Jonson’s hilarious use of the tradition in The Devil Is An Ass . Ordinary language philosophy helps to reveal what is at stake in this verbal drama of recognition. © 2012 by Duke University...

... of intrigue against the English polity. Pleasant notes itself was a defense of pre–Civil War literary values (where Ben Jonson is regarded as the English Cervantes) and of pre–Civil War and Civil War Oxford (during which time the university was the royalist headquarters), which is presented as a picaresque...

...Ryan Netzley In celebrating a poet-overseer who turns everything on an estate, even social opposition, to account, country house poems treat form itself as a managerial technique whose expansion regulates catastrophe. Ben Jonson's, Thomas Carew's, and Robert Herrick's procataleptic presentations...

... as human history—Adam is the author, says Ben Jonson’s Epicure Mammon, of the treatise in his possession.1 Alchemical treatises share a few basic ideas: that alchemy speeds up processes already at work in Nature, that gold rep- resents the perfect balance between...

.... 29 Bloom, Bosman, and West, “Ophelia's Intertheatricality,” 169. Thus, James's performance on the occasion of his royal entry reveals that premodern performance may be best characterized by meanings that are suspended between the archive and the repertoire. While Jonson's publication may...

... by 1614—he is mentioned in the Induction to Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair —his first play is not recorded until nearly a decade later, when A Fault in Friendship (lost) was licensed for Prince Charles’s company by Sir Henry Herbert.14 Heywood was writing in the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign; Brome began...

... force. Ben Jonson is said to have (re-)invented the book with his Workes (1616), and the significance of later books seems to depend upon their con- forming to Jonson’s (re-)invention: since Jonson’s folio is a monumental col- lection carefully selected and arranged...

... Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado In his eighty-eighth epigram, “On English Monsieur” (1616), Ben Jonson ridicules the vainglorious pride in apparel of his subject and specifically the Englishman’s obsession with clothes and accessories from France. Attired...

... the consolidation of the nation-state. Shakespeare, in particu- lar, has long occupied a central role in the construction of an exclusively national literary canon. Already in Ben Jonson’s elegiac “To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us,” which prefaced...

... and of judgment. In the prefatory epistle to Volpone , in which Ben Jonson defends his rough treatment of his own comic hero-villain, he insists that comic writers have long seen to it that practitioners of vice “ are mulcted [punished]: and fitly, it being the office of a comick-Poet, to imitate justice...

... plays provide evidence of popular opposition to the enterprise. In Jonson’s The Alchemist (1610), Sir Epicure Mammon “would ha’built / The city new; and made a ditch about it / of silver.” Instead of rid- ding the kingdom of plague, the aptly named knight opts to “serve th’whole city...

... then cost: Si[t]h all that He hath writt / Leaves living art, bvt page, to serve his witt.”16 Ben Jonson, rejecting calls for Shakespeare to be buried in Poets’ Corner, famously hailed him as “a monument without a tomb.”17 John Milton’s 1630 sonnet “On Shakespeare,” drawing inspiration from...

..., which relied in large part on the sale of ephemera that today would be clas- sified as nonliterary.10 In his poem describing this public print marketplace, Ben Jonson notes that the throngs of consumers frequenting it have “seen the maps, and bought ’em too, / And understand ’em, as most...

.... It is, of course, possible that Spenser was engaging in a bit of early modern “realpolitik” of which Ben Jonson might offer the clearest example, as Jonson writes: Rather than the City should want a Founder, we choose to follow the received story of Brute, whether fabulous or true...

... practices, see the play-­within-­a-­play at the beginning of Ben Jonson’s Vol- pone. Here, as in many of his plays, Jonson is fascinated in dramatic maneuvers that both contain and demystify bursts of theatrical energy, introducing elaborate perfor- mative frameworks only to expose...

..., several of which bring together many works: volumes of plays by Dryden, Davenant, Beaumont and Fletcher, Jonson, Lord Orrery, a Volume of tragedies, and of Comedies one volume. A further seven titles are in verse: Samuel Butler s Hudibras, Herberts Poems, Cowley s poems (items 23 25...

... Museum in 2021–22.] Butler, Martin, and Jane Rickard, eds. Ben Jonson and Posterity: Reception, Reputation, Legacy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xv, 255 pp., 29 figs. $99.99. Classen, Albrecht. Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature . Bristol Studies in Medieval...

... reserve. 17 The link between frank speech and embassy is subtle, but it recurs in early modern mirrors and catalogues of rhetorical tropes or commonplaces. Ben Jonson s Discoveries (1641) juxta- poses the figures of the counselor, the ambassador, and the civic subject in commentaries on obedience...

... response to Jonson’s (re)-invention of the book” with his self-canonizing folio of 1616. In other words, while Donne’s 1633 text reflects Jonsonian canonical impulses toward completeness and permanence, it is at the same time obviously modeled on earlier printed miscellanies, such as Britons...