From the accession of James I to 1616, argues Mardock, Jonson (1573-1637) pursued a project that had as much to do with the physical and social spaces of London as with his plays and their
collection into his famous Folio. He shows how the playwright exerted much control over the stages and theaters where his plays were performed, and dealt extensively in his plays with how
Londoners conceived their city, their experience of drama and its relation to their everyday lives, and how they understood space and the lived environment generally. Parts of the study served
as his Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, and parts have been delivered as talks. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
