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Article: Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2001
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Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance. Ed. by MARTIN BUTLER. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xii + 255 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].
This collection, ably introduced by Martin Butler, contains James Knowles's annotated text of Jonson's newly-discovered Entertainment at Britain's Burse and a series of papers originally presented in 1995 at the University of Leeds. The punning title points both to the immediate concern of that occasion (developing guidelines for a replacement to Herford and the Simpsons' monumental Oxford edition) and to the broader issue of how to represent Jonson to modern ...