
| Preface Robert M. Adams·The Staging of Jonson's Plays and Masques A Note on the Texts The Texts of the Plays and Masques Volpone Epicoene The Alchemist The Masque of Blackness Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue Contexts Jonson on His Work DISCOURSES ON POETRY From Every Man in His Humour (first version, 1598) Prologue to Every Man in His Humour (second version, 1616) Prologue to Cynthia's Revels From Poetaster From "Epistle Dedicatory" to Volpone JONSON'S SHOPTALK From Discoveries From Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden Contemporary Readers on Jonson Sidney Godolphin·On Ben Jonson Edmund Waller·Upon Ben Jonson Jasper Mayne·From To the Memory of Ben. Jonson Thomas Carew·To Ben Jonson upon Occasion of His Note of Defiance Annexed to His Play of The New Inn Backgrounds and Sources Volpone BEAST FABLE Middle English Bestiary·Natura Wulpis William Caxton·How Corbant the Crow Made Complaint against the Fox for the Death of his Wife Geoffrey Chaucer·The Nun's Priest's Tale La Fontaine·The Crow and the Fox LEGACY HUNTING Horace·Satire 2.5 The Alchemist Erasmus·The Alchemy Swindle Stanton J. Linden·[Alchemy: Definitions and Background] Criticism Jonas A. Barish·The Double Plot in Volpone Robert C. Evans·Thomas Sutton: Jonson's Volpone? Anne Barton·[Names in lonson's Comedies] John Dryden·Examen of The Silent Woman Robert Watson·Epicoene Edward B. Partridge·The Alchemist Ian Donaldson·[Jonson's Magic House] Richard Harp·Ben Jonson's Comic Apocalypse D. J. Gordon·[The Imagery of The Masque of Blackness] Stephen Orgel·[The Masque of Blacknessl John Mulryan·Mythic Interpretations of Ideas in Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue Leah S. Marcus·Pleasure and Virtue Reconciled Ben Jonson: A Chronology Selected Bibliography |
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