Ben Jonson The Critical Heritage

Introduction; Chapter 1 John Weever, Marston and Jonson 1599; Chapter 2 Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of his Humour 1599; Chapter 3 Ben Jonson, Prologue to Cynthia’s Revels 1600; Chapter 4 John Weever, Jonson as Humorist 1601; Chapter 5 Nicholas Breton on the Satirical Fashion 1601; Chapter 6 Ben Jonson, Poetaster 1601; Chapter 7 Thomas Dekker, Horace Untrussed 1601–2; Chapter 8 Charles Fitzgeffrey on Jonson 1601; Chapter 9 Cambridge Views on the War of the Theatres 1601–2; Chapter 10 Henry Chettle, Jonson’s Steel Pen 1603; Chapter 11 Samuel Daniel Attacks the Learned Masque 1604; Chapter 12 Thomas Dekker on Jonson’s Pedantry 1604; Chapter 13 John Marston, Tribute to Jonson 1604; Chapter 14 Sir Edward Herbert on Jonson’s Horace 1604; Chapter 15 Jonson as Laureate 1605; Chapter 16 On Sejanus 1605; Chapter 17 John Marston Glances at Sejanus 1606; Chapter 18 Ben Jonson on his Masques 1606; Chapter 19 On Volpone 1605–7; Chapter 20 Ben Jonson, More Principles for the Masque 1609; Chapter 21 Jonson’s Comedy Malicious and Factious 1610; Chapter 22 Ben Jonson, Prologue to The Alchemist 1610; Chapter 23 On Catiline 1611; Chapter 24 John Selden on Jonson’s Scholarship 1614; Chapter 25 Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair 1614; Chapter 26 On Jonson’s Epigrams 1615; Chapter 27 William Fennor on the Reception of Sejanus 1616; Chapter 28 Robert Anton, Jonson among the Melancholic Creators 161; Chapter 29 From The Workes of Benjamin Jonson 1616; Chapter 30 William Drummond, Jonson’s Character 1619; Chapter 31 Inigo Jones, Attack on Jonson 1619 or Later; Chapter 32 Edmund Bolton on Jonson’s Language 1621; Chapter 33 George Chapman, Expostulation with Jonson 1623 or Later; Chapter 34 Ben Jonson on the Staple of News 1626; Chapter 35 Nicholas Oldisworth on Jonson 1629; Chapter 36 Controversy Over the New Inn 1629–31; Chapter 37 Falkland on Jonson as the Dispenser of Fame 1631 or Earlier; Chapter 38 Leonard Digges, Shakespeare’s Plays More Popular than Jonson’s (?)1632; Chapter 39 Thomas Randolph

Biography

D H. Craig