This is the first book to explore Ben Jonson's place in the Romantic Age. It presents a varied, mobile, and contested Jonson and views the Romantic Age anew through a fresh lens. It will interest students of both the Renaissance and Romantic periods.

This collection highlights exciting new areas of research related to Ben Jonson, including book history, social history and cultural geography.

Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. In the century following his death he was seen by many as the finest of all English writers, living or dead. His fame rested not only on the numerous plays he had written for the theatre, but on his achievements over three

Explores the construction of Jonson's multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.