Book contents
- Ben Jonson and Posterity
- Ben Jonson and Posterity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Citations and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Immortal Ben Jonson
- Part I Conceptualizing Jonson
- Part II Jonson’s Early Reception
- Part III Jonsonian Afterlives
- Chapter 7 Anecdotal Jonson
- Chapter 8 Jonson in the Shadows
- Chapter 9 Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones
- Chapter 10 Jonson and Modern Memory
- Afterword Re-Making Jonson in the Digital World; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary?
- Index
Afterword - Re-Making Jonson in the Digital World; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary?
from Part III - Jonsonian Afterlives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2020
- Ben Jonson and Posterity
- Ben Jonson and Posterity
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Citations and Abbreviations
- Introduction: Immortal Ben Jonson
- Part I Conceptualizing Jonson
- Part II Jonson’s Early Reception
- Part III Jonsonian Afterlives
- Chapter 7 Anecdotal Jonson
- Chapter 8 Jonson in the Shadows
- Chapter 9 Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones
- Chapter 10 Jonson and Modern Memory
- Afterword Re-Making Jonson in the Digital World; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary?
- Index
Summary
Responding to issues raised by other essays in the collection, the Afterword considers Jonson’s place on the contemporary global stage and imagines him working in the world of social media. Speculating about how he might have conducted himself on Facebook and Twitter, Sanders suggests that Jonson the self-publicist would have seized on these modes of modern celebrity with creative relish. The Afterword goes on to consider Jonson in the modern theatre and questions of canon. Finally, it addresses some of the challenges and opportunities for Jonson's future afterlives.
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- Ben Jonson and PosterityReception, Reputation, Legacy, pp. 241 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020