Magnetick Lady. A Tale of a Tub. The sad shephard or a tale of Robin hood. The Devill is an asse. Salvo iure cuiuscunque. Thomas Walkley (Eyre, ii. 196).
1658, Nov. 20. Transfer of 'Ben Johnsons workes ye 3^d vol' from Walkley to Humphrey Moseley (Eyre, ii. 206). [Neither Walkley nor Moseley ever published the Works.]
F_{3} (1692)
1692. The Works of Ben Jonson, Which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now Reprinted in One. To which is added a Comedy, called the New Inn. With Additions never before Published. Thomas Hodgkin, for H. Herringham [&c.].
The more important of the later collections are:
1756. P. Whalley, The Works of B. J. 7 vols. [Adds The Case is Altered.]
1816, 1846. W. Gifford, The Works of B. J. 9 vols.
1828. J. Nichols, The Progresses, Processions and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First. 4 vols. [Prints the masks.]
1871, &c. W. Gifford, edited by F. Cunningham, The Works of B. J. 3 vols.
1875. W. Gifford, edited by F. Cunningham, The Works of B. J. 9 vols.
1893-5. B. Nicholson, The Best Plays of B. J. 3 vols. (Mermaid Series). [The nine plays of F_{1}.]
1905-8 (in progress). W. Bang, B. J.'s Dramen in Neudruck herausgegeben nach der Folio 1616. (Materialien, vi.)
1906. H. C. Hart, The Plays of B. J. 2 vols. (Methuen's Standard Library). [Case is Altered, E. M. I., E. M. O., Cynthia's Revels, Poetaster.]
In the absence of a complete modern critical edition, such as is promised by C. H. Herford and P. Simpson from the Clarendon Press, reference must usually be made to the editions of single plays in the Yale Studies and Belles Lettres Series.
Select Dissertations: W. R. Chetwood, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of B. J. (1756); O. Gilchrist, An Examination of the Charges of B. J.'s Enmity to Shakespeare (1808), A Letter to W. Gifford (1811); D. Laing, Notes of B. J.'s Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden (1842, Sh. Soc.); B. Nicholson, The Orthography of B. J.'s Name (1880, Antiquary, ii. 55); W. Wilke, Metrische Untersuchungen zu B. J. (1884, Halle diss.), Anwendung der Rhyme-test und Double-endings test auf. B. J.'s Dramen (1888, Anglia, x. 512); J. A. Symonds, B. J. (1888, English Worthies); A. C. Swinburne, A Study of B. J. (1889); P. Aronstein, B. J.'s Theorie des Lustspiels (1895, Anglia, xvii. 466), Shakespeare and B. J. (1904, E. S. xxxiv. 193); B. J. (1906, Literarhistorische Forschungen, xxxiv); E. Koeppel, Quellen-Studien zu den Dramen B. J.'s, John Marston's, und Beaumont und Fletcher's (1895, Münchener Beiträge, xi), B. J.'s Wirkung auf zeitgenössische Dramatiker (1906, Anglistische Forschungen, xx); J. H. Penniman, The War of the Theatres (1897, Pennsylvania Univ. Series, iv. 3); E. Woodbridge,
