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eldepryl In 1984 she returned to Cambridge as a professor and a fellow of Trinity College, where she would live for the rest of her life. That year she published Ben Jonson, Dramatist, a book of vast scope and imaginative sympathy in its understanding of what makes Jonson so unlike Shakespeare, and a rescue-act in its astonishing demonstration of the successfully experimental nature of Jonson's last plays, works till then dismissed as failures. It was her prompting that led the RSC triumphantly to produce The New Inn (1987) and Sejanus (2005), neither works that most thought worth staging.