Preliminaries -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Induction -- 1 Script and performance -- 2 Visualising Jonson's text -- 3 Designing for Jonson's plays -- 4 Acting in Jonson-a conversation with John Nettles and Simon Russell-Beale -- 5 Directing Jonson -- 6 Introduction -- 7 First encounters -- 8 Jonson as Shakespeare's Other -- 9 Contradictions -- 10 The gift of silence -- 11 Introduction -- 12 Daughters of Ben -- 13 'Twill fit the players yet' -- 14 Jonson down under: An Australian Alchemist -- Epilogue to this 'venture tripartite' -- Appendix: The conference 'Ben Jonson and the Theatre', University of Reading, January 1996 -- Bibliography -- Index.