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1. Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

   By James Loxley, Mark Robson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can enable...

   To Be Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Performativity

   By James Loxley

   Series: The New Critical Idiom

   Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications? Contemporary theorists have considered the ways in which the languages we speak might be ‘performative’ in...

   Published November 16th 2006 by Routledge
3. Ben Jonson

   By James Loxley

   Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

   This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays....

   Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge