Works+BJ


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Plays

 * //[|A Tale of a Tub],// comedy (ca. 1596? revised? performed 1633; printed 1640)
 * //[|The Case is Altered],// comedy (ca. 1597–98; printed 1609), with [|Henry Porter] and [|Anthony Munday]?
 * //[|Every Man in His Humour],// comedy (performed 1598; printed 1601)
 * //[|Every Man out of His Humour],// comedy ( performed 1599; printed 1600)
 * //[|Cynthia's Revels]// (performed 1600; printed 1601)
 * //[|The Poetaster],// comedy (performed 1601; printed 160 2)
 * //[|Sejanus His Fall],// tragedy (performed 1603; printed 1605)
 * //[|Eastward Ho],// comedy (performed and printed 1605), a collaboration with [|John Marston] and [|George Chapman]
 * //[|Volpone],// comedy (ca. 1605–06; printed 1607)
 * //[|Epicoene, or the Silent Woman],// comedy (performed 1609; printed 1616)
 * //[|The Alchemist],// comedy (performed 1610; printed 1612)
 * //[|Catiline His Conspiracy],// tragedy (performed and printed 1

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 * //[|Bartholomew Fair],// comedy (performed 31 October 1614; printed 1631)
 * //[|The Devil is an Ass],// comedy (performed 1616; printed 1631)
 * //[|The Staple of News],// comedy (performed Feb. 1626; printed 1631)
 * //[|The New Inn, or The Light Heart],// comedy (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)
 * //[|The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled],// comedy (licensed 12 October 1632; printed 1641)
 * //The Sad Shepherd,// pastoral (ca. 1637, printed 1641), unfinished
 * //Mortimer his Fall,// history (printed 1641), a fragment

Masques

 * //[|The Coronation Triumph],// or //The King's Entertainment// (performed 15 March 1604; printed 1604); with [|Thomas Dekker]
 * //A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day (The Penates)// (1 May 1604; printed 1616)
 * //[|The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince Henry at Althorp] (The Satyr)// (25 June 1603; printed 1604)
 * //[|The Masque of Blackness]// (6 January 1605; printed 1608)
 * //[|Hymenaei]// (5 January 1606; printed 1606)
 * //The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark (The Hours)// (24 July 1606; printed 1616)
 * //[|The Masque of Beauty]// (10 January 1608; printed 1608)
 * //[|The Masque of Queens]// (2 February 1609; printed 1609)
 * //[|The Hue and Cry after Cupid],// or //The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage// (9 February 1608; printed ca. 1608)
 * //The Entertainment at Britain's Burse// (11 April 1609; lost, rediscovered 2004)
 * //[|The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers],// or //The Lady of the Lake// (6 January 1610; printed 1616)
 * //[|Oberon, the Faery Prince]// (1 January 1611; printed 1616)
 * //[|Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly]// (3 February 1611; printed 1616)
 * //[|Love Restored]// (6 January 1612; printed 1616)
 * //A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage// (27 December 1613/1 January 1614; printed 1616)
 * //The Irish Masque at Court// (29 December 1613; printed 1616)
 * //[|Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists]// (6 January 1615; printed 1616)
 * //[|The Golden Age Restored]// (1 January 1616; printed 1616)
 * //[|Christmas, His Masque]// (Christmas 1616; printed 1641)
 * //[|The Vision of Delight]// (6 January 1617; printed 1641)
 * //[|Lovers Made Men],// or //The Masque of Lethe,// or //The Masque at Lord Hay's// (22 February 1617; printed 1617)
 * //[|Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue]// (6 January 1618; printed 1641) The masque was a failure; Jonson revised it by placing the anti-masque first, turning it into:
 * //[|For the Honour of Wales]// (17 February 1618; printed 1641)
 * //[|News from the New World Discovered in the Moon]// (7 January 1620: printed 1641)
 * //The Entertainment at Blackfriars, or The Newcastle Entertainment// (May 1620?; MS)
 * //[|Pan's Anniversary, or The Shepherd's Holy-Day]// (19 June 1620?; printed 1641)
 * //[|The Gypsies Metamorphosed]// (3 and 5 August 1621; printed 1640)
 * //[|The Masque of Augurs]// (6 January 1622; printed 1622)
 * //[|Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours]// (19 January 1623; printed 1623)
 * //[|Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion]// (26 January 1624; printed 1624)
 * //The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth// (19 August 1624; printed 1641)
 * //[|The Fortunate Isles and Their Union]// (9 January 1625; printed 1625)
 * //[|Love's Triumph Through Callipolis]// (9 January 1631; printed 1631)
 * //[|Chloridia: Rites to Chloris and Her Nymphs]// (22 February 1631; printed 1631)
 * //[|The King's Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottinghamshire]// (21 May 1633; printed 1641)
 * //[|Love's Welcome at Bolsover]// ( 30 July 1634; printed 1641)

Other works
//Timber, or Discoveries,// a commonplace book. As with other English Renaissance dramatists, a portion of Ben Jonson's literary output has not survived. In addition to //The Isle of Dogs // (1597), the records suggest these lost plays as wholly or partially Jonson's work: //Richard Crookback// (1602); //Hot Anger Soon Cold// (1598), with Porter and Henry Chettle ; //Page of Plymouth// (1599), with Dekker; and //Robert II, King of Scots// (1599), with Chettle and Dekker. Several of Jonson's masques and entertainments also are not extant: //The Entertainment at Merchant Taylors// (1607); //The Entertainment at Salisbury House for James I// (1608); and //The May Lord// (1613–19). Finally, there are questionable or borderline attributions. Jonson may have had a hand in //Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother //, a play in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. The comedy //The Widow // was printed in 1652 as the work of Thomas Middleton, Fletcher and Jonson, though scholars have been intensely skeptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, like //The London Prodigal ,// have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses.
 * //Epigrams// (1612)
 * //The Forest// (1616), including //To Penshurst//
 * //A Discourse of Love// (1618)
 * [|Barclay]'s //[|Argenis],// translated by Jonson (1623)
 * //The Execration against Vulcan// (1640)
 * [|//Horace's Art of Poetry//], translated by Jonson (1640), with a commendatory verse by [|Edward Herbert]
 * //Underwood// (1640)
 * //English Grammar// (1640)
 * //On My First Sonne// (1616)
 * //To Celia (Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes)//, poem

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