Produced by: Kevin James, College of Professional Studies
March 7, 2019
Dr. Gregory Wilson, Professor of English and Speech, College ofProfessional Studies will publish a new second edition of his book titled "The Problem in the Middle". According to the synopsis for the book:"Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones enjoyed one of the most successful theatrical collaborations of Renaissance England with their spectacular courtmasques. But their relationship soured over a dispute as to what was mostimportant in the masque: the poetry of the former or the set and costumedesign of the latter. Wilson argues that the masque is in a perpetual stateof liminality, existing in the margin between performance and an observingaudience. The masque is more than historically interesting; it negotiates thespace between possibility and reality. This book searches for thatintervening ground and the resolution of the “problem in the middle.”