The Ben Jonson Journal Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles

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1 The Ben Jonson Journal Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles Richard Harp EDITORS Stanley Stewart University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of California, Riverside Robert C. Evans Auburn University at Montgomery MANAGING EDITOR Joyce Ahn University of Nevada, Las Vegas EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Amijo Comeford EDITORIAL BOARD David M. Bevington, University of Chicago Martin Butler, University of Leeds Thomas Clayton, University of Minnesota Ian Donaldson, Cambridge University Timothy Erwin, University of Nevada, Las Vegas M. Thomas Hester, North Carolina State University Grace Ioppolo, University of Reading W. David Kay, University of Illinois William W. Kerrigan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Anthony Low, New York University David C. McPherson, University of New Mexico John Mulryan, St. Bonaventure University Stephen Orgel, Stanford University E. W. Tayler, Columbia University Sara van den Berg, St. Louis University Robin Headlam Wells, Roehampton University Susanne Woods, Wheaton College R. V. Young, North Carolina State University

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3 THE BEN JONSON JOURNAL Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles VOLUME 13 / 2006 JOURNAL POLICIES / vii EDITORS' PAGE / ix ARTICLES MICHAEL W. STAMPS Peter Whalley: Editing Jonson in the Eighteenth Century / 1 BARBARA MATHER COBB fonson's Conversations with William Drummond: A History / 29 PAT RICK PHILLIPS "You Need Not Fear the House": The Absence of Plague The Alchemist / 43 in TRAVIS CURTRIGHT A "Pre-Machiavellian Moment": Thomas More's Poetry and The History of Richard III / 63 ANDREW R. GRIFFIN Sexuality, Speech, and Narcissism in Jonson's Epicoene / 83 NANCY E. WRIGHT Legal Interpretation of Defamation in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing / 93 REBECCA YEARLING John Marston's What You Will and the War of the Theaters / 109 LUCY M UNRO Richard Brome and The Book of Bulls: Situating The New Academy, or The New Exchange / 125

4 NOTES ROBERT ELLRODT Self-consistency in the Characters in Shakespeare's King Lear / 139 JONSON AND HIS ERA OVERVIEWS OF MODERN RESEARCH TED-LARRY PEBWORTH "Camden, To William" / 149 English Grammar / 153 Timber, or Discoveries / 163 CLAUDE J. SUMMERS Homosexuality / 157 THEATER REVIEWS AMIJO COMEFORD Recent Ben Jonson Theatrical Events and Productions / 173 BOOK REVIEWS MICHAEL W. STAMPS Tom Lockwood's Ben Jonson in the Romantic Age / 189 ROBERT C. EVANS Achsah Guibbory's The Cambridge Companion to John Donne / 196 STEPHEN SMITH Clare Asquith's Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare / 204 ANT HONY LOW Thomas Kranidas's Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal / 210 John T. Shawcross's Rethinking Milton Studies: Time Present and Time Past / 211 Jim Daems and Holly Faith Nelson's Eikon Basilike: The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Suffering: With Selections from Eikonklastes, John Milton / 211

5 Michael SUSANNE WOODS Lieb's Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon / 214 R. V. YOUNG Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgins's Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and Tudor-Stuart Middle Way / 217 SCOTT CRIDER Edward Armstrong's A Ciceronian Sunburn: A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and Civil Poetics / 222 PET ER HAPPE Ton Hoenselaars and Arthur F. Kinney's Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-Smith / 226 KATE FROST Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe, and Mary Floyd-Wilson's Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion / 234 LISA HOPKINS Michael Dobson and Nicola ]. Watson's England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy / 239 EDITORS' 243 CHOICES CONTRIBUTORS 259