The Ben Jonson Journal Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles EDITORS Richard Harp Stanley Stewart University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of California, Riverside Robert C. Evans Auburn University, Montgomery John C. Kerrigan Managing Editor Anne Kubaneck Editorial Assistant 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, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham 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 James A. Riddell, California State University, Dominguez Hills E. W. Tayler, Columbia University Sara van den Berg, University of Washington Susanne Woods, Franklin & Marshall College R. V. Young, North Carolina State University
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THE BEN JONSON JOURNAL Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles VOLUME 6 / 1999 ARTICLES W. DAVID KAY Epicoene, Lady Compton, and the Gendering of Jonsonian Satire on Extravagance / 1 ROBERT S. MIOLA Creating the Author: Jonson's Latin Epigraphs / 35 JULIE SANDERS Jonson, The Sad Shepherd and the North Midlands / 49 LESLEY MICKEL "A Learned and Manly Soul": Jonson and His Female Patrons / 69 PAMELA ALLEN BROWN Jonson Among the Fishwives / 89 ROBERT C. EVANS Friendship in Shakespeare's Othello / 109 ROBERT L. MONTGOMERY The Present Tense: Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Menaces of Time / 147 J. P. CONLAN The Tempest and the King's Better Knowledge / 161 JULIA BRETT 'Grace is grace, despite of all the controversy": Measure for Measure, Christian Allegory, and the Sacerdotal Duke / 189 RICHARD BRUCHER Piracy and Parody in Chettle's Hoffman / 209 SURVEY Outstanding Twentieth-Century Books in English Renaissance Scholarship / 223
BIBLIOGRAPHIC AND EDITORIAL STUDIES HUGH CRAIG The Weight of Numbers: Common Words and Jonson's Dramatic Style/'243 CLINT DARBY Modern Books on Ben Jonson: A General Topical Index (First Supplement) / 261 NOTES MATTHEW PRINEAS "Yet Once More": An Allusion to Hebrews 12.26-27 in Ben Jonson's "On the Famous Voyage" / 277 PETER HY LAND "Not the paths I meant": Jonson and Shakespeare / 289 JEFFREY K AHAN Reforging Macklin's Forgery: Yet Another Example ofsteevens "Laughing in His Sleeve" at Malone? / 295 ROBERT S. MIOLA Lancastrian Shakespeare: A Conference on Region, Religion, Patronage, and Performance A Report on the International Conference at the University of Lancaster and the Hoghton Tower Shakespeare Centre, 21-23 July 1999 / 305 THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES HERBERT WEIL "Be vigitant, I beseech you": A Fantasia on Dogberry and Doubling in Much Ado About Nothing / 307 ESSAY REVIEW R. V. YOUNG Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human / 319
BOOK REVIEWS Peter ARTHUR F. KINNEY Beal's In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and Their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England / 327 KEVIN J. DONOVAN Achsah Guibbory's Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth- Century England / 333 PAUL STRAUSS Carol Everhart Qidllen's Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism / 341 EDITORS' 347 CHOICES
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EDITOR'S PAGE Next year's volume of the journal will include a special section, "Catholicism and English Renaissance Literature." The Editors invite articles, notes, and book reviews on this topic, which should be submitted by June 1, 2000. Robert Miola's report on this past summer's Lancaster Shakespeare conference, which also addressed this topic, is included in the present volume. Also in this volume of the journal are the results of a recent survey sent to scholars asking for their choices of the best scholarly and critical books in twentieth-century English Renaissance studies. Comments on individual books are also included. The Ben Jonson Journal: Literary Contexts in the Age of Elizabeth, James, and Charles is an annual review devoted to the study of Ben Jonson and the culture in which his manifold literary efforts thrived. The editors invite submissions of well-written essays on poetry, theater, criticism, religion, law, the court, the curriculum, medicine, commerce, the city, and family life. The journal is also concerned with the manifestation of these and other interests in Renaissance life and culture generally and, therefore, welcomes well-written articles and notes that do not necessarily concern Jonson specifically but are of significance to the age in which he lived. Because the editors wish to publish work of high quality in every area of relevant Renaissance scholarship, when appropriate we will include contributions under the rubric "Bibliographic and Editorial Studies"; for example, in this issue readers will find Hugh Craig's "The Weight of Numbers: Common Words and Jonson's Dramatic Style" and Clint Darby's supplement to the general topical index, "Modern Books on Ben Jonson," which was compiled by Katie J. Magaw for volume five.
X BEN JONSON JOURNAL NOTA BENE Contributor Michael E. Cornett has asked us to notify readers of an updated URL for World Microfilms (previously listed in his "Working the Early Modern British Archive/' BJJ 5 [1998], on the tenth line of page 181): www.microworld.ndirect.co.uk