Author:Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson
(1572–1637)

Ben Jonson

Works

• The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford (1819) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)

Essays

• On Shakespeare
• On Bacon

Plays

• A Tale of a Tub
• The Case Is Altered
• Every Man in His Humour (transcription project)
• Every Man out of His Humour
• Cynthia's Revels
• The Poetaster
• Sejanus His Fall
• Eastward Ho
• Volpone
• Epicoene, or The Silent Woman
• The Alchemist
• Catiline His Conspiracy
• Bartholmew Fayre (respelled - Bartholomew Fair)
• The Devil is an Ass
• The Staple of News
• The New Inn, or The Light Heart
• The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled
• The Sad Shepherd
• Mortimer his Fall

Masques

• The Coronation Triumph, or The King's Entertainment
• A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day
• The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince Henry at Althorp
• The Masque of Blackness
• Hymenaei
• The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark
• The Masque of Beauty
• The Masque of Queens
• The Hue and Cry after Cupid, or The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage
• The Lady of the Lake, or The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers
• Oberon, the Faery Prince
• Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly
• Love Restored
• A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage
• The Irish Masque at Court
• Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists
• The Golden Age Restored
• Christmas, His Masque
• The Vision of Delight
• Lovers Made Men, or The Masque of Lethe, or The Masque at Lord Hay's
• Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
• For the Honour of Wales
• News from the New World Discovered in the Moon
• The Entertainment at Blackfriars, or The Newcastle Entertainment
• Pan's Anniversary, or The Shepherd's Holy-Day
• The Gypsies Metamorphosed
• The Masque of Augurs
• Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours
• Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion
• The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth
• The Fortunate Isles and Their Union
• Love's Triumph Through Callipolis
• Chloridia: Rites to Chloris and Her Nymphs
• The King's Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottinghamshire
• Love's Welcome at Bolsover

Poetry

• An Elegy
• Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.
• Epode
• A Farewell to the World
• His Supposed Mistress
• The Hourglass
• A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour
• Hymn to Diana
• On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
• On My First Sonne
• The Noble Balm
• The Noble Nature
• A Nymph’s Passion
• An Ode to Himself
• On a Robbery
• On Poet-Ape (1612)
• On Salathiel Pavy
• The Shadow
• Simplex Munditiis (also known as Clerimont's Song)
• To Celia (later set to music as "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes")
• To Censorious Courtling
• To Doctor Empiric
• To Fine Lady Would-Be
• To the Immortal Memory of Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison
• To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us
• The Triumph
• That Women are but Men's Shadows

Other works

• Epigrams (1612)
• The Forest (1616)
• A Discourse of Love (1618)
• Argenis (1623, as translator)
• The Execration against Vulcan (1640)
• Ars Poetica, or Horace's Art of Poetry (1640, as translator)
• The English Grammar (1640)
• Underwoods (1640)
• Timber, or Discoveries
• To Celia

Works about Jonson

• "Ben Jonson", in The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (1853)
• "Jonson, Ben," by Adolphus William Ward in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 13) (1881)
• "Ben Jonson" (1882), a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Jonson, Benjamin," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• A Study of Ben Jonson (1889), by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Ben Jonson's Comedy of Bartholomew Fair by Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1902)
• "Jonson, Ben or Benjamin," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Jonson, Ben," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ben Jonson", in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920), by T.S. Eliot