The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson 7 Volume Set

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson presents Jonson's complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It provides a clear sense of the shape, scale and variety of the entire Jonsonian canon, including plays, court masques and entertainments, poems, prose works and letters. Each text, edited in modern spelling, is accompanied by an introduction containing essential information about its date, sources and interpretation, and is supported by detailed on-page commentary and collation. The Edition presents Jonson's texts in a form which combines thoroughness of explanation with readability. The Edition as a whole explicates Jonson's works fully in the light of modern scholarship, making them accessible to students, scholars, theatrical practitioners and anyone wishing to explore the work of Shakespeare's great contemporary. For further information and free access to The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online, please visit https://universitypublishingonline.org/cambridge/benjonson/

Table of Contents:
1. Contributors; 2. Alphabetical listing of the contents; 3. Index of titles and first lines of the poems; 4. Maps and illustrations; 5. Acknowledgements; 6. General introduction The General Editors; 7. Life of Ben Jonson Ian Donaldson; 8. Actors, companies, and playhouses David Bevington; 9. The Court Masque Martin Butler; 10. Masquers and Tilter Martin Butler; 11. The printing and publishing of Ben Jonson's works David L. Gants and Tom Lockwood; 12. Abbreviations and common forms of citation; 13. Sigla used in the collations; 14. The complete works in seven volumes; 15. Bibliography Eugene Giddens, Karen Britland, Peter Culhane and Christopher Burlinson.

About the Author :
David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds. Ian Donaldson is Director in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Review :
'… [a] formidable enterprise … There would have to be either a transformation of our mental world beyond present imagination, or some sensational textual discovery before anyone could think it necessary to edit Jonson again.' Blair Worden, London Review of Books 'Every jot and tittle of Jonson's grand and staggering career is detailed in this magnificent Cambridge edition of his works … The new Cambridge Jonson is a treasure-house. It should be snapped up by every library worthy of the name.' Peter Craven, The Weekend Australian 'The Cambridge Jonson is a major achievement. Its contributions to scholarship are numerous and significant. For many works, it offers the best edition available. It achieves its aim to give a compelling account of the author and his works, with the chronological presentation working effectively to this end. … Finally it can be affirmed, both with approval and with a hint of irony, that in its project of replacing the Oxford edition the new Cambridge Jonson undoubtedly succeeds.' Cahiers Élisabéthans 'The combined forces of thirty leading scholars in drama, poetry, textual criticism and manuscript studies have resulted in the best edition of a Renaissance dramatist in our time. And with a complementary electronic edition in production, three times the size of these seven handsome volumes, Cambridge has done Jonson proud.' Brian Vickers, Times Literary Supplement '… a cause for celebration …' Andrew Hadfield, Daily Telegraph '… a remarkable feat of cooperative scholarship: this edition gathers contributions from a team of thirty scholars, including Electronic Editor David Gants and Associate Editors Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. Jonson lived in an extraordinary age. His work, as much as his life, expressed its variousness, danger, energy, and ambition. Here it all is. He would have been delighted.' Lisa Gorton, Australian Book Review 'Its production values are impeccable, and it is a pleasure to handle and to read. … Anything anyone wants to know about Jonson is now obtainable at the click of a mouse … That such a project as The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson can be brought to fruition at all, in the prevailing academic publishing climate, is a miracle. That it has been completed in only fifteen years … is an amazing feat.' Paul Dean, The New Criterion