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Resource Name
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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson Online
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Description
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Accessibility: https://www.cambridge.org/accessibility
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This resource presents Jonson’s complete writings in the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. The online version of Cambridge’s 2012 print edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, is also has a large number of textual and contextual materials. Additional content includes the recently discovered diary of Jonson's 'Foot Voyage' to Scotland, letters written to Jonson, early attempts at a biography, further material relating to the masques and poems, and numerous contemporary references to Jonson's works and reputation.
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Digital technology gives a dynamic insight into Jonson’s processes of composition and to reveal the editorial choices which underpin the modernized text. The reader can call up any combination of modern-spelling text, old-spelling transcriptions, and digital images, and move flexibly between them. Together, they give an unprecedented sense of the character and richness of Jonson’s texts in their early published forms, and their complex and diverse variants.
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Cambridge University Press has made this edition of the works on Ben Jonson freely available to everyone.
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Access Information
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Free Online Resource from end of 2021.
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