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Studies in Major Literary Authors Edited by William E. Cain Professor of English Wellesley College A Routledge Series Studies in Major Literary Authors William E. Cain, General Editor The End of Learning Milton’s Uncertain Eden Milton and Education Understanding Place in Paradise Lost Thomas Festa Andrew Mattison Reading and Mapping Hardy’s Roads Henry Miller and Religion Scott Rode Thomas Nesbit Creating Yoknapatawpha The Magic Lantern Readers and Writers in Faulkner’s Fiction Representation of the Double in Dickens Owen Robinson Maria Cristina Paganoni No Place for Home The Environmental Unconscious in Spatial Constraint and Character Flight in the the Fiction of Don DeLillo Novels of Cormac McCarthy Elise A. Martucci Jay Ellis James Merrill The Machine that Sings Knowing Innocence Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Reena Sastri Culture of the Body Yeats and Theosophy Gordon A. 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Mardock New York London First published in 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon, OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2008 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be printed or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now know or hereafter invented, including photo- copying and recording, or any other information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication data Mardock, James D., 1974– Our scene is London : Ben Jonson’s city and the space of the author / by James D. Mardock. p. cm. — (Studies in major literary authors) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-97763-0 1. Jonson, Ben, 1573?–1637—Homes and haunts—England—London. 2. Dramatists, English—Homes and haunts—England—London. 3. Space in literature. 4. London (England)— Social life and customs—17th century. 5. London (England)—Intellectual life—17th century. 6. London (England)—In literature. 7. Jonson, Ben, 1573?–1637. Bartholomew Fair. 8. James I, King of England, 1566–1625—In literature. I. Title. PR2634.M37 2008 822'.3--dc22 2007032596 ISBN 0-203-92851-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-97763-0 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-92851-2 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-97763-0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-92851-6 (ebk) For Emilie Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter One Space as Authorial Strategy 6 Chapter Two Londinium: The 1604 Royal Entry of James I 23 Chapter Three London on Stage, London as Stage 45 Chapter Four Jonson’s Plague Year Plays 67 Chapter Five “Practisers of their madnesse”: Bartholomew Fair and the Space of the Author 95 Epilogue Beyond the 1616 Folio 110 Notes 117 Bibliography 147 Index 157 vii Acknowledgments Parts of this book originated as a dissertation at the University of Wisconsin under the directorship of Heather Dubrow, whose unstinting rigor, profes- sionalism, and energy as a director, mentor, and friend made the project pos- sible. Various versions of the arguments herein have benefited from the critical eyes and comments of Alex Block, Justin Gifford, Marissa Greenberg, Adam Kitzes, David Loewenstein, Eric Rasmussen, Carol Rutter, Aaron Santesso, Henry Turner, Stanley Wells, Susanne Wofford, and especially Jane Rickard. Portions of the book have been presented in abbreviated form at Shakespeare Association of America seminars organized by Jean Howard and Crystal Bartolovich, Nora Johnson, Martin Butler, and Catherine Rich- ardson, and I am indebted to the other participants in those seminars for their insightful responses. Chapter two, in a somewhat different form, was presented to the Princeton British Studies Seminar, for which opportunity I am grateful to Peter Lake and Bill Jordan. The book has benefited from generous grants from the University of Wisconsin, the University of War- wick, and Ripon College, and I am likewise indebted for support—moral, emotional, and scholarly—to my friends and colleagues, at Wisconsin (par- ticularly Alex Block and Jesse Wolfe), at Ripon, at Warwick, and especially at the University of Nevada, where my own friendly authorial competition with Chris Coake helped impel the production of these pages. I would be remiss as an author if I did not acknowledge the role of place in this book’s production, and so I would also like to thank the Fair Trade Coffee House in Madison, Seasons Café in Ripon, and the Bibo Cof- fee Company in Reno, for providing me with tables and caffeine. Finally, thanks to my family for their unflagging support over the years, and to Emilie Meyer, whose love, encouragement, and ability to maintain a long- term perspective have been indispensable. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, and yet I thank you. ix
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