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A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/bibliography.html
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
(English dramatist and poet, b. Westminster, orphaned son of a Protestant minister, st. Westminster School, left Cambridge without a degree, masqueaprenticed as bricklayer to father-in-law; volonteer in Flanders army 1592, killed enemy in single combat, actor in London c. 1594, imprisoned for manslaughter, converted to Catholicism for some time, married 1594, children died; returned to Anglicanism 1606; pensioned by the King 1616; honorary MA Oxford 1619; poet for aristocratic patrons, apologist of Stuart royalty; neoclassical theorist and literary authority, overweight and hard drinker)
Works
1590s
Jonson, Ben. Every Man in his Humour. Comedy. Acted 1596, rev. version acted at Blackfriars, 1598.
_____. Every Man In His Humour. London: Walter Burre, 1601.
_____. Every Man in His Humour. In Jonson, Works. 1616.
_____. Every Man in his Humour. Ed. Herford and Simpson.
_____. Every Man in His Humour. (Revels series). Ed. Robert S. Miola.
_____. The Case Is Altered. Comedy. 1598. (Vs Munday, "Don Antonio Ballendino").
_____. Prologue to Every Man in his Humour. Folio ed., 1616.
_____. ? The Scottes Tragedy. Drama. 1599. (Lost).
Jonson, Ben, Thomas Dekker, and Henry Chettle. Robert the Second, King of Scottes. Drama. c. 1599. (Lost).
Chettle, Henry, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson. Hot Anger soon Cold. Drama. August 1598. Not printed.
Nashe, Thomas, Ben Jonson, et al. The Isle of Dogs. Drama. 1597. (Lost).
1600s
Jonson, Ben. Cynthia's Revels. Drama. Acted at Whitehall and Blackfriars, 1600.
_____. Cynthia's Revels. Ed. C. H. Herford and Percy Simpson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932.
_____. Every Man Out of His Humour. Comedy. Staged Globe theatre, 1600.
_____. Every Man Out of His Humour. Online at Project Gutenberg.*
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3695/3695-h/3695-h.htm
2012
_____. Prologue to Every Man Out of His Humour. 1600. Select. in Literary Criticism from Plato to Dryden. Ed. Gilbert. 537-38.
_____. "Queen and Huntress." Poem. 1600. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1413-14.
_____. "Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount." Poem. 1600. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1413.*
_____. The Poetaster. Comedy. Acted at Blackfriars, 1601.
_____. Poetaster. Ed Tom Cain. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995. 1996.
_____. Rev. version of Jeronymo for Henslowe. 1601.
_____. Richard Crook-Back. Tragedy. 1602. (Lost).
_____. Sejanus His Fall. Tragedy (in collaboration with anon. author). Produced by the King's Men, Globe theatre, 1603. Rev. version by Ben Jonson 1605. (Political play, in support of the Earl of Essex).
_____. "To the Readers of Sejanus." 1605. In Criticism from Plato to Dryden. Ed. Gilbert. 538-49.*
_____. "To the Readers." In Sejanus, His Fall. 1605. In Writing and the English Renaissance. Ed. William Zunder and Suzanne Trill. Harlow (Essex): Longman, 1996. 265-66.*
_____. Panegyric on the First Meeting of Parliament. c. 1604.
_____. The Masque of Blackness. Acted 1605. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1294-1303.*
_____. The Masque of Blackness. In The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. Ed. Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds. London: Routledge, 2002. (Book/eBook)
_____. Hymenaei. Masque. First performed 1606.
_____. Volpone. Comedy. First performed King's Men, Globe Theatre, 1606. Acted 1606 at Oxford and Cambridge.
_____. Volpone. Quarto, 1607.
_____. Volpone. In Works, 1616.
_____. Volpone. Ed. Jonas Barish. Arlington Heights (IL): AHM, 1958.
_____. Volpone or the Fox /Volpone o el zorro. Bilingual ed. Ed. and trans. A. Sarabia Santander. Barcelona: Bosch, 1980.
_____. Volpone. In Jonson, Volpone and Other Plays. Ed. Lorna Hutson. (Renaissance Dramatists). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1998.
_____. Volpone. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1303-93.*
_____. Volpone, or The Fox. Ed. B. Parker. Clays, 1999.
_____. Volpone, or the Fox. Online at Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4039/4039-h/4039-h.htm
2012
_____. Volpone. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 673-64.*
_____. Volpone. Audiobook. YouTube (Free Audiobooks) 26 Oct. 2014.*
https://youtu.be/q6OS4thJIBo
2015
_____. Volpone. Ed. and trans. Purificación Ribes. (Letras Universales). Madrid: Cátedra, 2002.
_____. Volpone or the Fox. (Letras Universales). Madrid: Cátedra, 2002.
_____. Dedicatory Epistle of Volpone. 1606. In The Personal Note. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and S. Wason. London: Chatto, 1946. 38-41.
_____. "Dedication to Volpone." In Literary Criticism and Theory. Ed. R. C. Davis and L. Finke. London: Longman, 1989. 234-37.*
_____. "Song: To Celia." In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 1064-65.*
_____. The Masque of Whiteness. c. 1607.
_____. Masque of Beauty. 1608.
_____. "Still to Be Neat." Poem. 1609. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1414.*
_____. Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers. 1609. (Allegorical tournament-entertainment).
_____. The Key Keeper: An Entertainment at Britain's Burse. Masque. 1609. Ed. John Knowles. Forthcoming 1997.
_____. The Entertainment at Britain's Burse. Masque. Written 1609. 1st ed. in Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, Performance, History. Ed. Martin Butler. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.
_____. The Masque of Queens. 1609.
_____. Epicoene: Or, The Silent Woman. Comedy. 1609-10.
_____. Epicoene, or the Silent Woman. In The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. Ed. Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds. London: Routledge, 2002. (Book/eBook)
_____. Epicene. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 775-860.*
Jonson, Ben, John Marston and George Chapman. Eastward Ho! Comedy. 1605.
_____. Eastward Ho! Edited by C. G. Petter. (The New Mermaids). Benn, 1973.
1610s
_____. The Alchemist. Comedy. c. 1610.
_____. The Alchemist. Ed. F. H. Mares. London: Methuen.
_____. The Alchemist. Ed. Peter Bement. London: Routledge, 1987.
_____. The Alchemist. In The Alchemist and Other Plays. Ed. Gordon Campbell. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995.
_____. The Alchemist. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 861-960.*
_____. The Alchemist. In Four Renaissance Comedies. Ed. Robert Shaughnessy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
_____. Preface to The Alchemist. 1612.
_____. Oberon the Fairy Prince. Masque. 1611. (With Inigo Jones).
_____. Catiline His Conspiracy. Tragedy. Pub. 1611.
_____. Love Restored. Masque. 1612.
_____. A Challenge at Tilt. Drama. 1613.
_____. "Ben Jonson on The Tempest (and Titus Andronicus) (1614)." In The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1997. 3341.*
_____. Bartholomew Fair. Comedy. 1614.
_____. Bartholomew Fair. Ed. Maurice Hussey. London: Benn, 1964.
_____. Bartholomew Fair. Introd. Edward B. Partridge. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1969.
_____. Bartholomew Fair. In English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology. Ed. David Bevington et al. New York and London: Norton, 2002. 961-1066.*
_____. The Devil is an Ass. Comedy. 1616.
_____. Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists in Court. Masque. 1616.
_____. The Workes of Beniamin Jonson. Imprinted at London: By Will Stansby, 1616. (Folio; Contains: Comedies, Tragedies, Masques, Epigrams, and The Forest poems).
_____. "On My First Son." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 764.*
_____. From Epigrams. 1616. ("To My Book", "On Something, That Walks Somewhere," "To William Camden," "On My Fist Daughter," "To John Donne," "On Don Surly," "On Giles and Joan," "On My First Son," "On Lucy, Countess of Bedford," "To Lucy, Countess of Bedford, with Mr. Donne's Satires," "Inviting a Friend to Supper," "Epitaph on S.P., a Child of Queen's Elizabeth Chapel."). In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.393-99.*
_____. From The Forest. 1616. ("To Penshurst," "Song: To Celia," "To Heaven"). In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1399-1403.*
_____. Lovers Made Men. Masque. 1617.
_____. Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. Masque. 1618.
_____. Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden. 1619. In Ben Jonson (The Oxford Authors) 595-612.*
_____, ed. History of the World. By Sir Walter Ralegh. 1614.
1620s
_____. The Gipsies Metamorphosed. Masque. 1621.
_____. Time Vindicated. 1623.
_____. "To the Reader." Prefatory poem to the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays. 1623. Facsimile. In The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1997. 3346.*
_____. "To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us." In Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio). London,1623.
_____. "To the memory of my beloued, the avthor Mr. William Shakespeare: And what he hat left vs." Prefatory poem to the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays. 1623. Facsimile. In The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1997. 3351-52.*
_____. "To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us." In The Works of Ben Jonson, vol. 3. London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. 287-9.
_____. "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author." 1623. In Shakespeare Criticism: A Selection 1623-1840. London: Oxford UP, 1946. 3-5.
_____. "To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us." 1623. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1414-16.*
_____. "To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us." Online at Luminarium.*
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/benshake.htm
2013
_____. "To the Memory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare." Poetry Foundation.*
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44466
2016
_____. Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion. Masque. 1624.
_____. The Fortunate Isles. 1625.
_____. The Staple of Newes. Comedy. 1626.
_____. Anti-Masque of Jophiel. 1627.
_____. "To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison." Ode. 1629, pub. 1640-41. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1.1609-13.*
Heminge, John, Henry Condell, Ben Jonson, et al. "Front Matter from the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays (1623)." Facsimiles. In The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1997. 3345-57.*
1630s
Jonson, Ben. The New Inn. Comedy. 1630. Printed in 1631 octavo; omitted from the 1640 folio. Included in 1692 folio.
_____. "Expostulation with Inigo Jones." 1631.
_____. Love's Triumph Through Callipolis. Masque. Acted 1631.
_____. Chloridia. Masque. 1631.
_____. "Ode to Himself." 1631, 1640-41.
_____. "An Ode to Himself." In The Songs and Poems of Ben Jonson. London: Philip Allan & Co., 1924. 59-60.
_____. "Ode to Himself." In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1416-18.*
_____. "An Ode to Himself." Luminarium
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/odetohimself.htm
2012
_____. "Ode (To Himself)." The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. Ed. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. 179-180.
_____. "Ode (To Himself)." Luminarium.*
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/jonson/odetohimself2.htm
2011
_____. The Magnetic Lady. Comedy. 1632.
_____. Tale of a Tub. Drama. 1633.
_____. "Induction" to The Magnetic Lady. 1635.
_____. The Sad Shepherd. Pastoral drama. c. 1637.
_____. Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd with Waldron's Continuation. 1905.
_____. The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin Hood. From Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd with Waldron's Continuation. 1905. Online at The Robin Hood Project
http://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/jonson-sad-shepherds
2015
_____. The Sad Shepherd: Or, A Tale of Robin Hood. Online facsimile at The Internet Archive
http://archive.org/stream/sadshepherdorat00jonsgoog#page/n14/mode/2up
2012
_____. English Grammar. Ed. James Howell. In Jonson, Works. 1640.
_____. The Second Book of the English Grammar. c. 1637.
_____. English Grammar. Rev. ed. in Jonson's 1692 Folio.
Fletcher, John, George Chapman, Ben Jonson and Philip Massinger (?). Rollo: or the Bloody Brother. Oxford, 1638.
1640s
_____. The Underwood. In Jonson, (Works, Second folio). 1640.
_____. From Underwood. 1640-41. (From "A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces," "A Sonnet, to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth," "My Picture Left in Scotland,"). In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1403-9.*
_____. "My Picture Left in Scotland." Poetry Foundation.*
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44461
2017
_____. An Execration against Vulcan. 1640.
_____. Works. 2nd ed. 1640.
_____. Timber: Or, Discoveries. Criticism. 1st ed. in Workes. Vol. 2. 1640.
_____. Timber. In 1692 folio.
_____. Discoveries. Ed. Maurice Castelain. Paris, 1906.
_____. Timber: Or, Discoveries. Selection. In The Great Critics. Ed. J. H. Smith and E. W. Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 212-21.*
_____. Discoveries. Ed. G. B. Harrison. (Bodley Head Quartos).
_____. Timber: Or, Discoveries. Ed. Ralph S. Walker. London: Greenwood Press, 1976.
_____. Timber or discoveries. In Jonson, The Complete Poems. Ed. G. Parfitt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.
_____. Timber, or, Discoveries. In Ben Jonson (The Oxford Authors) 521-94.*
_____. From Timber, or Discoveries. 1640-41. (Style). In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.1616-18.*
_____. "De Shakespeare Nostrati." 1641. In Shakespeare Criticism: A Selection 1623-1840. London: Oxford UP, 1946. 6.
_____. "Ben Jonson on Shakespeare (1623-37)." From Timber. In The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1997. 3360-61.*
_____, trans. The Art of Poetry. By Horace. In Works. Ed. 1640.
_____, trans. The Art of Poetry. By Horace. In The Great Critics. Ed. James Harry Smith and Edd Winfield Parks. New York: Norton, 1932. 88-105.*
Other works
Jonson, Ben. The Masque of Augurs.
_____. Commentary on the Poetics. (Lost).
_____. Journey into Scotland. (Lost).