Ben Jonson, 1616–2016

Jean Howard from Columbia University delivers a talk titled “Jonson and the Urban Sensorium.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson and Urban Comedy.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Martin Butler from University of Leeds delivers a talk titled “20th Century Ben Jonson.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson and Urban Comedy.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Tom Lockwood from University of Birmingham delivers a talk titled “Jonson and the Friends of Liberty.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson’s Later Reception and Influence.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Stephen Orgel from Stanford University delivers a talk titled “Jonson’s Ghost: Creating an Afterlife from Tonson to Beardsley” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson’s Later Reception and Influence.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Helen Ostovich from McMaster University delivers a talk titled “The Material World of Ben Jonson’s Theater: Staging Windows and Doors in the Comedies of the 1616 Folio” This talk was included in the session titled “Reading and Staging Jonson in the 21st Century.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Michael Cordner from University of York delivers a talk titled “‘Speak that I may see thee’: Performing Jonson in the 21st Century” This talk was included in the session titled “Reading and Staging Jonson in the 21st Century.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

James Loxley from University of Edinburgh delivers a talk titled “Ben Jonson’s Literary Celebrity.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson and Celebrity.” This is a recording of the second half of the delivered talk. Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Paul Menzer from Mary Baldwin University delivers a talk titled “Anecdotal Jonson.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson and Celebrity.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Adam Zucker from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, delivers a talk titled “Pedantic Ben Jonson.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson, Learning, and the Enemies of Learning.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Heather James from University of Southern California delivers a talk titled “The Trials of Ovid: Ben Jonson’s ‘Poetaster, or the Arraignment.’” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson, Learning, and the Enemies of Learning.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Suzanne Gossett from Loyola University Chicago delivers a talk titled “Ben Jonson, Competitive Freelancer.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson and His Intertextual Relations.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.

Lucy Munro from King’s College London delivers a talk titled “London, 1616: Reading ‘The Devil is an Ass’ in the Blackfriars and Beyond.” This talk was included in the session titled “Jonson and His Intertextual Relations.” Part of “Ben Jonson, 1616–2016,” a conference held at The Huntington Sept. 16–17, 2016.