Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds. He is one of the general editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, 7 volume set (Cambridge, 2012). His publications include The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008). Jane Rickard is a Senior Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James (Cambridge, 2015) and Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I (2007), and co-edited Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (with Richard Meek and Richard Wilson, 2008).

• Introduction. Immortal Ben Jonson Martin Butler and Jane Rickard; Part I. Conceptualising Jonson: 1. Popular Jonson James Loxley; 2. Pedantic Ben Jonson Adam Zucker; 3. Corporeal Jonson Jean E. Howard; Part II. Jonson's Early Reception: 4. Seventeenth-Century Readers of Jonson's 1616 Works Jane Rickard; 5. Jonson's Ghost and the Restoration Stage Jennie Challinor; 6. Jonson and the Friends of Liberty Tom Lockwood; Part III. Jonsonian Afterlives: 7. Anecdotal Jonson Paul Menzer; 8. Jonson in the Shadows Stephen Orgel; 9. Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones Richard O'Brien; 10. Jonson and Modern Memory Martin Butler; Afterword. Re-making Jonson in the digital world; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary? Julie Sanders.

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Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds. He is one of the general editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, 7 volume set (Cambridge, 2012). His publications include The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008). Jane Rickard is a Senior Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James (Cambridge, 2015) and Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I (2007), and co-edited Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (with Richard Meek and Richard Wilson, 2008).

• Introduction. Immortal Ben Jonson Martin Butler and Jane Rickard; Part I. Conceptualising Jonson: 1. Popular Jonson James Loxley; 2. Pedantic Ben Jonson Adam Zucker; 3. Corporeal Jonson Jean E. Howard; Part II. Jonson's Early Reception: 4. Seventeenth-Century Readers of Jonson's 1616 Works Jane Rickard; 5. Jonson's Ghost and the Restoration Stage Jennie Challinor; 6. Jonson and the Friends of Liberty Tom Lockwood; Part III. Jonsonian Afterlives: 7. Anecdotal Jonson Paul Menzer; 8. Jonson in the Shadows Stephen Orgel; 9. Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones Richard O'Brien; 10. Jonson and Modern Memory Martin Butler; Afterword. Re-making Jonson in the digital world; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary? Julie Sanders.

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Martin Butler is Professor of English Renaissance Drama at the University of Leeds. He is one of the general editors of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, 7 volume set (Cambridge, 2012). His publications include The Stuart Court Masque and Political Culture (Cambridge, 2008). Jane Rickard is a Senior Lecturer in Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England: Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James (Cambridge, 2015) and Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and I (2007), and co-edited Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception (with Richard Meek and Richard Wilson, 2008).

• Introduction. Immortal Ben Jonson Martin Butler and Jane Rickard; Part I. Conceptualising Jonson: 1. Popular Jonson James Loxley; 2. Pedantic Ben Jonson Adam Zucker; 3. Corporeal Jonson Jean E. Howard; Part II. Jonson's Early Reception: 4. Seventeenth-Century Readers of Jonson's 1616 Works Jane Rickard; 5. Jonson's Ghost and the Restoration Stage Jennie Challinor; 6. Jonson and the Friends of Liberty Tom Lockwood; Part III. Jonsonian Afterlives: 7. Anecdotal Jonson Paul Menzer; 8. Jonson in the Shadows Stephen Orgel; 9. Adapting Jonson: Three Twentieth-Century Volpones Richard O'Brien; 10. Jonson and Modern Memory Martin Butler; Afterword. Re-making Jonson in the digital world; or, Jonson, Our Contemporary? Julie Sanders.

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