Table of Contents

Introduction A. D. Cousins and Alison V. Scott; 1. Feigning the commonwealth: Jonson's 'Epigrams' A. D. Cousins; 2. The Jonsonian masque and the politics of decorum Alison V. Scott; 3. The politics (and pairing) of Jonson's country house poems Robert C. Evans; 4. Style, versatility and the politics of the epistles John Roe; 5. Jonson's politics of gender and genre: Mary Wroth and 'Charis' Marea Mitchell; 6. Jonson's metempsychosis revisited: patronage and religious controversy Richard Dutton; 7. Jonson's humanist tragedies Tom Cain; 8. A generic prompt in Jonson's 'Timber', or 'the Discoveries' Eugene D. Hill.

Promotional Information

This book considers how Ben Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote.

Reviews

Review of the hardback: 'The editors offer this excellent collection of essays as the first book-length study to explore ways in which Ben Jonson deploys the resources of genre to shape his political vision … a topic of genre and politics that richly deserves the exploration it receives here.' David Bevington, English Historical Review