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Ben: Jonson Page

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his site presents an online edition of the works of Ben Jonson (1572-1637), Shakespeare's fellow playwright and poet. These texts are being made available for educational and entertainment purposes. Although I have striven for accuracy in the transcription of the texts, I make no pretense that this is a scholarly edition of Jonson's works. Please consider these texts to be the work of a hobbyist. Copyright is retained by Clark J. Holloway. However, copies may be downloaded and distributed freely, so long as the copyright notice appears on any copies and they are distributed free of charge, regardless of format.

These texts are in the original spelling of the 1692 edition of Jonson's Works (the first folio edition to be combined in one volume), with the exception of The Case is Altered and Eastward Ho, neither of which appeared in the folios. The Case is Altered is taken from Peter Whalley's edition of 1756 (as reprinted for John Stockdale in 1811), and Eastward Ho is taken from a relatively modern text. All errors are preserved and line breaks are retained (with the exception of the epistles and arguments that have been formatted with justified margins). Broken lines due to insufficient space have been silently repaired, except where the text accommodates them by adding an indented line. Some errors in the original text, and occasional obsolete spellings, are marked by a tiny image of Jonson. Hover your cursor over the image to see an editorial correction or clarification.

Although generally printed in two-column pages, the texts are presented here in a single column format. Column breaks are indicated in square brackets. Page breaks are indicated by a light-gray line extending across the page. Spacing has been normalized, and original letter-forms not readily available on a modern Internet browser (such as the long "s") have been modernized. The ligatures Æ and Œ have been retained (when appearing in italics, æ (æ) and œ (œ) can be virtually indistinguishable in some fonts; the technically inclined may wish to change their default font or view the source file if a question arises as to the proper character). Greek text is displayed using the "Symbol" font, so it will not display properly unless your browser supports that font. Due to the limitations inherent in the "Symbol" font, diacritical marks have been omitted in Greek text. As will no doubt be embarrassingly apparent, I have small Latin, and less Greek (none, in fact), so corrections are actively solicited, and will be appreciatively received.

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Note that it is a convention of the original texts of the plays to leave the first line in a scene unattributed, the speaker being the first person named in the list of characters appearing in the scene.

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CONTENTS (click on desired link) UNDER CONSTRUCTION—ONLY LIVE LINKS HAVE TEXT

1692 Folio

Front matter Frontispiece Title Page Catalogue Commendatory Verse Plays reprinted from the 1616 Folio Every Man in his Humour Every Man out of his Humour Cynthia's Revels Poetaster Sejanus his Fall Volpone, or, the Fox Epicœne, or, the Silent Woman The Alchemist Catiline his Conspiracy Verse reprinted from the 1616 Folio Epigrams The Forest Entertainments and a Panegyric reprinted from the 1616 Folio King's Entertainment in passing to his Coronation A Panegyre, on the Happy Entrance of James A Particular Entertainment of the Queen and Prince A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen The Entertainment of the Two Kings An Entertainment of King James and Queen Ann Masques reprinted from the 1616 Folio The First, of Blackness The Second Masque. Which was of Beauty Hymenæi The Masque with the Nuptial Songs The Masque of Queens, Celebrated in the House of Fame The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers Oberon, the Fairy Prince Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly Love Restored A Challenge at Tilt The Irish Masque Mercury Vindicated from the Alchymists The Golden Age Restored Plays reprinted from the 1640 Folio Barthol[o]mew Fair The Staple of News The Devil is an Ass The Magnetick Lady A Tale of a Tub The Sad Shepherd Verse and a fragment reprinted from the 1640 Folio Under-Woods Mortimer his Fall (play) Masques reprinted from the 1640 Folio Christmas his Masque A Masque Presented in the House of the Right Honorable Lord Hay The Vision of Delight Pleasure Reconciled to Vertue For the Honour of Wales News from the New World Discovered in the Moon A Masque of the Metamorphos'd Gypsies The Masque of Augures Time Vindicated Neptunes Triumph Pan's Anniversary: or the Shepherd's Holy-Day The Masque of Owles The Fortunate Isles, and their Union Love's Triumph through Callipolis Chloridia Miscellaneous works reprinted from the 1640 Folio Horace, his art of Poetry The English Grammar Timber: or Discoveries Works New to the 1692 Folio The New Inn (play) Leges Convivales

From Whalley's 1756 Edition (1811 reprint)

The Case is Altered (play)

From a Modern Edition

Eastward Ho (play)

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