Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Preface -- Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- NOTES -- 1. John Weever, Marston and Jonson -- 2. Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour -- NOTES -- 3. Ben Jonson, prologue to Cynthia's Revels -- 4. John Weever, Jonson as humorist -- NOTES -- 5. Nicholas Breton on the satirical fashion -- 6. Ben Jonson, Poetaster -- NOTES -- 7. Thomas Dekker, Horace untrussed -- NOTES -- 8. Charles Fitzgeffrey on Jonson -- 9. Cambridge views on the War of the Theatres -- 10. Henry Chettle, Jonson's steel pen -- 11. Samuel Daniel attacks the learned masque -- NOTES -- 12. Thomas Dekker on Jonson's pedantry -- NOTE -- 13. John Marston, tribute to Jonson -- 14. Sir Edward Herbert on Jonson's Horace -- 15. Jonson as laureate -- NOTES -- 16. On Sejanus -- NOTES -- 17. John Marston glances at Sejanus -- 18. Ben Jonson on his masques -- NOTES -- 19. On Volpone -- NOTES -- 20. Ben Jonson, more principles for the masque -- NOTES -- 21. Jonson's comedy malicious and factious -- 22. Ben Jonson, prologue to The Alchemist -- 23. On Catiline -- 24. John Selden on Jonson's scholarship -- 25. Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair -- 26. On Jonson's epigrams -- 27. William Fennor on the reception of Sejanus -- 28. Robert Anton, Jonson among the melancholic creators -- 29. From The Workes of Benjamin Jonson -- 30. William Drummond, Jonson's character -- 31. Inigo Jones, attack on Jonson -- 32. Edmund Bolton on Jonson's language -- 33. George Chapman, expostulation with Jonson -- NOTES -- 34. Ben Jonson on The Staple of News -- 35. Nicholas Oldisworth on Jonson -- 36. Controversy over The New Inn -- NOTES -- 37. Falkland on Jonson as the dispenser of fame -- NOTES -- 38. Leonard Digges, Shakespeare's plays more popular than Jonson's.

39. Thomas Randolph on the power of Jonson's verses -- 40. Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lay -- 41. Alexander Gill, attack on The Magnetic Lady -- NOTES -- 42. James Howell, letters to Jonson -- NOTE -- 43. Sir John Suckling, caricature of Jonson -- 44. Ben Jonson, prologue to The Sad Shepherd -- NOTES -- 45. Sir John Suckling, Jonson's arrogance -- 46. James Shirley on Jonson and The Alchemist -- 47. Newcastle, tribute to Jonson -- 48. George Stutvile, Jonson as tutor -- 49. Tributes from Jonsonus Virbius -- NOTE -- 50. George Daniel, elegy on Jonson -- 51. John Benson, dedication of Jonson's Poems -- 52. On Jonson's translation of Horace's Ars Poetica -- 53. James Shirley on Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Jonson -- 54. William Cartwright on Jonson's love-scenes -- 55. Robert Herrick, tributes to Jonson -- 56. Edmund Gayton, Jonson the scholar's playwright -- NOTES -- 57. On reviving Jonson at the Restoration -- 58. Samuel Pepys on performances of Epicoene and Bartholomew Fair -- NOTE -- 59. The Play of the Puritan -- 60. Margaret Cavendish on Jonson's plays -- 61. Thomas Fuller, portrait of Jonson -- 62. Richard Flecknoe, Jonson's part in the history of the English stage -- 63. Samuel Pepys on performances of Epicoene and Bartholomew Fair -- 64. Saint-Evremond, Jonson central to a French view of English comedy -- 65. Samuel Butler on Jonson and Shakespeare -- 66. Samuel Pepys reads Every Man in his Humour, sees Epicoene -- 67. John Dryden's Essay -- NOTES -- 68. John Dryden makes Shakespeare monarch over Fletcher and Jonson -- 69. John Dryden, Jonson's borrowings -- 70. Thomas Shadwell on Jonson's humour comedy -- 71. John Dryden cites Jonson in the controversy over rhymed drama -- NOTE -- 72. Samuel Pepys on Bartholomew Fair, Epicoene, Catiline, and The Alchemist -- 73. Clarendon on Jonson's talents and achievements.

74. Charles Sackville, epilogue to an Every Man in his Humour revival -- 75. Richard Flecknoe answers Dryden on Jonson -- 76. John Dryden explains his view of Jonson -- NOTES -- 77. Thomas Shadwell defends his estimate of Jonson -- NOTES -- 78. Edward Howard on Jonson -- NOTES -- 79. Edward Howard on Jonson's imaginary creations -- 80. Edward Ravenscroft, Jonson the model for didactic comedy -- 81. On Jonson and Shakespeare -- 82. John Dryden on the faults of predecessors like Jonson -- NOTE -- 83. Aphra Behn on Shakespeare and Jonson -- NOTE -- 84. Edward Howard, Jonson unparalleled among ancient or modern authors -- 85. Edward Phillips on Jonson's achievements -- 86. John Dryden, Jonson distinguished from Shadwell -- NOTES -- 87. John Oldham on Jonson -- 88. John Dryden, low farce in Volpone -- 89. Edward Howard on Jonson's allegory and on a statue of Jonson -- 90. Gerald Langbaine, notes on Jonson -- NOTES -- 91. Thomas Rymer on Catiline -- NOTES -- 92. Nahum Tate, farce in Jonson -- NOTES -- 93. John Dryden, Jonson and Fletcher matched at last -- 94. Beat Louis de Muralt on Jonson and Molière -- NOTE -- 95. William Wotton on Jonson's Grammar -- 96. John Dennis and William Congreve on Jonson's comedy -- NOTES -- 97. Jeremy Collier on Jonson as a model playwright -- NOTE -- 98. William Congreve and Jeremy Collier on profanity in Bartholomew Fair -- NOTE -- 99. William Burnaby, Jonson a model for the comedy of characters and action -- 100. John Dennis on Jonson's comedy -- 101. Jonson discussed in a critical dialogue on the theatre -- 102. Jonson returns from the shades to castigate Thomas Baker -- 103. Samuel Cobb, Jonson's notable thefts and successful piracies -- 104. Richard Steele on Jonson -- 105. Nicholas Rowe, Jonson's evil eye on Shakespeare -- NOTE -- 106. Charles Gildon on Jonson.

107. Richard Steele on Jonson's plays as description and instruction -- 108. John Dennis, Jonson no guide to Shakespeare for tragedy -- NOTES -- 109. Lewis Theobald as 'Benjamin Johnson' -- 110. John Dennis on suggestibility in The Alchemist -- NOTE -- 111. John Dennis, Jonson invoked against Steele -- 112. Charles Gildon, Jonson the master of comedy -- 113. John Dennis, Jonson the authority for the comedy of ridicule -- 114. Alexander Pope on the relations between Shakespeare and Jonson -- NOTES -- 115. Alexander Pope, observations on Jonson -- 116. Shakespeare and the actors defended against Pope and Jonson -- NOTE -- 117. William Levin, Shakespeare and Jonson a lesson to their successors -- NOTE -- 118. Jonson's comedy obsolete -- NOTE -- 119. A proper reaction to Volpone -- 120. William Warburton and Lewis Theobald on Jonson -- 121. Alexander Pope on Jonson's inflated popular reputation -- NOTES -- 122. Algernon Sidney on Catiline -- 123. Henry Fielding on Jonson -- NOTES -- 124. Corbyn Morris, humours in Shakespeare and Jonson -- 125. David Garrick, the acting of Drugger and Macbeth -- 126. Sarah Fielding, David Simple hears a critic on Shakespeare and Jonson -- NOTE -- 127. William Guthrie, Jonson the Poussin of drama -- 128. Unsigned review of La Place's Catiline -- NOTES -- 129. Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare and Jonson -- 130. Charles Macklin, a forged pamphlet on Jonson -- NOTES -- 131. Edmund Burke, Jonson and true comedy -- 132. John Upton on Jonson -- NOTES -- 133. Richard Hurd, on Catiline and on Shakespeare versus Jonson -- NOTES -- 134. Thomas Seward on Jonson, Shakespeare, and Beaumont and Fletcher -- NOTES -- 135. William Guthrie, Jonson and human nature -- 136. Garrick's Every Man in his Humour revival -- 137. Francis Gentleman, Sejanus -- 138. Bonnell Thornton, review of Epicoene.

139. Theophilus Cibber and Robert Shiells, summary criticism of Jonson -- 140. Richard Hurd, Every Man out of his Humour, The Alchemist, Volpone -- NOTE -- 141. Arthur Murphy, essays in The Gray's Inn Journal -- NOTE -- 142. David Hume, Jonson's rude art -- 143. Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier, Jonson's envy of Shakespeare -- NOTES -- 144. Peter Whalley's edition of Jonson -- NOTES -- 145. Richard Hurd, Jonson's imitations -- NOTE -- 146. Arthur Murphy, articles in The London Chronicle -- 147. Thomas Wilkes on Jonson and on Jonson actors of the day -- NOTES -- 148. Edward Young, Jonson and the load of learning -- 149. Charles Churchill, Jonson's judgement -- 150. Garrick as Abel Drugger -- 151. Horace Walpole on Jonson -- 152. Samuel Rogers, Shakespeare and Jonson -- 153. David Erskine Baker on Jonson -- NOTE -- 154. Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg on Jonson -- 155. John Brown, Bartholomew Fair revised -- NOTE -- 156. Edward Capell, Jonson's borrowings -- NOTES -- 157. Jonson strong without passion -- 158. James Beattie, Jonson's misuse of learning -- 159. Elizabeth Montague, Jonson and Shakespeare -- 160. Francis Gentleman, Jonson a bad writer -- 161. Charles Jenner, Sir Charles Beville at The Alchemist -- NOTE -- 162. Francis Gentleman's The Tobacconist -- 163. George Colman's revival of Volpone -- NOTE -- 164. Doubts on Jonson and the old dramatists -- 165. Shakespeare and Jonson compared -- NOTES -- 166. George Steevens on Jonson -- 167. Lord Camden on reading Ben Jonson -- 168. Francis Gentleman, notes on Jonson's ode to Shakespeare -- NOTE -- 169. David Garrick on confidence tricks in The Alchemist -- 170. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Garrick's Abel Drugger -- NOTE -- 171. George Colman's Epicoene -- NOTES -- 172. Kitely preferred to Ford -- 173. Thomas Davies on Jonson revivals -- 174. B.Walwyn, Falstaff and Bobadil -- NOTES.

175. Colman's Volpone revived.