Includes both Jonson's poetry and plays
Places Jonson firmly in his own time and historical context
Strong on contexts, which are often remote to 21st century students
Only competition in price range are edited collections of essays, without the mediation offered by our book. Ours is therefore much more student-friendly.
'I'm really impressed indeed with the scope, precision, conciseness, lucidity and comprehensiveness of this book. ... Bringing so much together in such a short space and making sense of it all is a major achievement.' - Sean McEvoy, Varndean College, Brighton, UK
'James Loxley brings together a wide range of Ben Jonson scholarship to produce a detailed and thorough guide'. - Renaissance Journal
James Loxley is the author of Royalism and Poetry in the English Civil Wars (1997). He is lecturer in English literature at the University of Edinburgh.