Author:Ben Jonson

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Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

See biography. An English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor.

“	Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.	”
—Ben Jonson, To the Reader

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Essays 1.2 Plays 1.3 Masques 1.4 Poetry 1.5 Other works 2 Works about Ben Jonson

[edit] Works

[edit] Essays

• On Shakespeare
• On Bacon

[edit] Plays

• A Tale of a Tub
• The Case is Altered
• Every Man in His Humour
• 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
• Bartholomew Fair (respelled)
• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Poetry

• Hymn on the Nativity
• Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H.
• Epode
• A Farewell to the World
• His Supposed Mistress
• Hymn to Diana
• On Lucy, Countess of Bedford
• On My First Sonne
• The Noble Nature
• A Nymph’s Passion
• An Ode to Himself
• On a Robbery
• On Salathiel Pavy
• Simplex Munditiis (also known as Clerimont's Song)
• To Celia
• To Censorious Courtling
• To Doctor Empiric
• To Fine Lady Would-Be
• The Hourglass
• 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

[edit] Other works

• Epigrams
• The Forest
• A Discourse of Love
• Argenis (as translator)
• The Execration against Vulcan
• Ars Poetica, or Horace's Art of Poetry (as translator)
• Underwoods
• Timber, or Discoveries

[edit] Works about Ben Jonson

• Ben Jonson by Author:T. S. Eliot
• Ben Jonson article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.