This collection of multi-authored essays not only refashions and revises critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his canon of work, but is also self-reflexive about the process. It includes original essays by both established and emergent Jonson scholars, and employs materialist, feminist and queer theory in the production of its readings of Jonsonian playtexts and masques, familiar and otherwise. It is intended to encourage new approaches by students to this central figure from the Renaissance.

TOM CAIN Head, Department of English, University of Newcastle JANET CLARE Lecturer in English, University College, Dublin RICHARD DUTTON Professor of English, Lancaster University ROBERT C. EVANS Professor, Department of English and Philosophy, Auburn University, Montgomery KATE MCLUSKIE Professor of English, University of Southampton CLARE MCMANUS Postgraduate student, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick HELEN OSTOVICH Associate Professor of English, McMaster University.