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SHAKESPEARE, MARLOWE, JONSON This page intentionally left blank Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson New Directions in Biography Edited by TAKASHI KOZUKA and J.R. MULRYNE #Takashi KozukaandJ.R. Mulryne,2006 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording orotherwisewithout the priorpermissionof the publisher. TakashiKozukaandJ.R.MulrynehaveassertedtheirmoralrightundertheCopyright, Designs and PatentsAct,1988, to beidentified aseditors of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Gower House Suite420 CroftRoad 101Cherry Street Aldershot Burlington Hampshire GU113HR VT 05401-4405 England USA Ashgate website: http://www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguingin PublicationData Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson: newdirections inbiography 1. Shakespeare, William, 1564–1616 – Congresses 2. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564– 1593–Congresses3.Jonson,Ben,1573?–1637–Congresses4.Shakespeare,William, 1564–1616 – Criticism and interpretation – Congresses 5. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593–Criticismandinterpretation–Congresses6.Jonson,Ben,1573?–1637– Criticismand interpretation –Congresses I.Kozuka, TakashiII. Mulryne, J.R. 822.3009 Library of CongressCataloging-in-Publication Data Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson: new directions in biography / edited by Takashi Kozukaand J.R.Mulryne. p.cm. Includesbibliographical references. ISBN0-7546-5442-7 (alk.paper) 1. English drama – Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500–1600 – History and criticism. 2. Dramatists, English – Early modern, 1500–1700 – Biography. 3. English drama – 17th century – History and criticism. 4. Marlowe, Christopher, 1564–1593. 5. Shakespeare,William, 1564–1616.6. Jonson, Ben, 1573?–1637. I. Kozuka, Takashi. II. Mulryne,J.R. PR653.S532006 822.309–dc22 2005011862 ISBN 0 754654427 Printed andboundin Great Britain byAntonyRowe, Chippenham, Wilts. Contents Contributors vii Preface and Acknowledgements ix 1 Where We Are Now: New Directions and Biographical Methods 1 J.R. Mulryne Part 1 Shakespeare and the Art of Biography 2 Shakespeare in Life and Art: Biography and Richard II 23 Blair Worden 3 Is the Author Dead? Or, the Mermaids and the Robot 43 John Carey 4 Calling All (Shakespeare) Biographers! Or, a Plea for Documentary Discipline 55 Alan H. Nelson 5 Shakespearean Origins 69 Richard Dutton 6 Why Didn’t Shakespeare Write Religious Verse? 85 Alison Shell 7 Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible: The Circumstances 113 John W. Velz 8 Guy of Warwick, Upstart Crows and Mounting Sparrows 119 Helen Cooper 9 Shakespeare and the DNB 139 Peter Holland Part 2 Christopher Marlowe 10 ‘By my onely meanes sett downe’: The Texts of Marlowe’s Atheism 153 Charles Nicholl vi Shakespeare, Marlowe,Jonson 11 Was Marlowe Going to Scotland when He Died, and Does it Matter? 167 Lisa Hopkins 12 Biographical Representations: Marlowe’s Life of the Author 183 Patrick Cheney 13 The Poet in the Play: Life and Art in Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta 205 David Riggs Part 3 Ben Jonson 14 The Love Life of Ben Jonson 227 Lloyd Davis 15 Looking Sideways: Jonson, Shakespeare and the Myths of Envy 241 Ian Donaldson 16 Jonson in Scotland: Jonson’s Mid-Jacobean Crisis 259 James Knowles 17 Jonson’s Caroline Coteries 279 Julie Sanders Selected Bibliographies 295 Takashi Kozuka Index 301 Contributors John Carey Emeritus Merton Professor of English, University of Oxford, UK Patrick Cheney Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA Helen Cooper Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK {Lloyd Davis {Formerly Reader in English, University of Queensland, Australia Ian Donaldson Director, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Australia Richard Dutton Professor of English Literature, Ohio State University, USA Peter Holland Professor of Theatre Studies, McMeel Family Chair of Shakespeare Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA Lisa Hopkins Professor of English, Sheffield Hallam University, UK James Knowles Professor of English, Keele University, UK Takashi Kozuka Formerly Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, UK J.R. Mulryne Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK Alan H. Nelson Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, USA Charles Nicholl Independent Scholar, Italy David Riggs Professor of English, Stanford University, USA Julie Sanders Professor of English Literature and Drama, University of Nottingham, UK Alison Shell Reader in English Studies, University of Durham, UK John W. Velz Emeritus Professor of English, University of Texas, USA Blair Worden Visiting Professor of History, University of Oxford, UK This page intentionally left blank Preface and Acknowledgements Theessaysinthisvolumederive,insomecasesindirectly,fromaconferenceof Warwick University’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance held at King EdwardVISchoolinStratford-upon-AvoninSeptember2001.Theconference wasdrawntogetherbyTakashiKozuka,atthetimeadoctoralpostgraduateof the Centre, and chaired by the Centre’s director, Ronnie Mulryne. Both conference and book have involved us in a great many intellectual debts. My own first debt was and is to Takashi Kozuka who laboured tirelessly to set up and administer the conference and to contribute perceptive commentary. He has subsequently with great good humour, knowledge and patience maintainedliaison with our many contributors.He has drawn up the selected bibliographies included here, and participated in the editing of the various chapters. Both Takashi and I are indebted not only to the contributors whose work appears below, but also to those who delivered papers and chaired conference sessions, but whose work for a variety of reasons is not included here: Professors Stanley Wells, Katherine Duncan- Jones, Richard Wilson and Tom McAlindon, and Drs Grace Ioppolo, Phillippa Berry and Margaret Shewring. Margaret has also assisted us with comment and advice as the book has been completed and actively participated in preparing the book for publication. We would like to thank Mr Tim Moore-Bridger, Headmaster of King Edward VI School, and the School Governors, for permission to use the historic Guild Hall and Big School (where Shakespeare was in all probability a pupil) for conference sessions. WeoffergratefulthankstoRachelLynch,LizGreasbyandErikaGaffneyat Ashgate Publishing, for encouragement and guidance. We are grateful to ManchesterUniversityPressandtotheeditorsoftheLondonReviewofBooks, The Times Literary Supplement and The Ben Jonson Journal for kind permission to reprint material that first appeared in their publications. Detailed acknowledgements are given following the essays concerned. Our colleagues and students in the Centre for the Study of the Renaisssance at the UniversityofWarwickhavebeenanunfailingsourceofstimulus.JiaoLiuand Linda Bromley have been efficient and loyal secretaries. The British Academy supportedtheattendanceofNorthAmericancolleaguesattheconference,and forthiswearemostgrateful.Since2001,Warwick’sCentrefortheStudyofthe Renaissance has incorporated the AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures, an environment which has made possible the development and editing of this volume. We trust that our readers will find our collaborative endeavours a source of intellectual stimulus and enjoyment.
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