Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. This Companion brings together leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to provide an accessible, up-to-date introduction to Jonson's life and works. It represents an invaluable guide to current critical perspectives, providing generous coverage not only of his plays but also his non dramatic works.
ROBERT C. EVANS
I. B. YOUNG PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY
Education 1978 84 Ph.D., Princeton University / 1973 77 B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pittsburgh
Fellowships: Richard M. Weaver Fellowship / Princeton University Fellowship / Whiting Foundation / Newberry Library / American Council of Learned Societies / Folger Shakespeare Library / Mellon Foundation / Huntington Library / National Endowment for the Humanities / American Philosophical Society / UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Awards: G. E. Bentley Prize / 1989 Professor of the Year for Alabama, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education / AUM Faculty Excellence Award / AUM Distinguished Research Professor / AUM University Alumni Professor / AUM Distinguished Teaching Professor / Director, two-year Mellon seminar on critical pluralism / Departmental Award for Collaborative Work with Students / Keynote speaker, Utah Shakespearean Festival / Professor of the Year, South Atlantic Association of Departments of English
University Appointments: Past Preceptor, Honors Program / Past Director of the Learning Center / Interim Department Head, Department of English and Philosophy
External Service: One of three editors of the Ben Jonson Journal / past member of the editorial board of Explorations in Renaissance Culture / editor for Renaissance drama and book review editor, Comparative Drama / service on National Awards Committee, American Association of University Women / editorial board, Iter/MRTS Bibliography of English Writers, 1500-1640 / editorial board of Renaissance English Texts Society / contributing editor, Donne Variorum Edition / South Atlantic Review Prize Committee
Books: Author or editor of more than twenty books (on such topics as Ben Jonson, Martha Moulsworth, Kate Chopin, John Donne, Frank O'Connor, Brian Friel, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Tan, early modern women writers, pluralist literary theory, literary criticism, twentieth-century American writers, American novelists, and seventeenth-century English literature)
Articles and notes: Author of roughly two hundred published or forthcoming essays or notes on a variety of topics, especially dealing with Renaissance literature, critical theory, women writers, short fiction, and American literature
Other: Profiled in Contemporary Authors
