Ben Jonson: The Critical HeritageD.H. Craig Routledge, 2012 M10 12 - 612 pages The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves. |
Contents
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1 John Weever Marston and Jonson | 29 |
2 Ben Jonson Every Man out of his Humour | 31 |
3 Ben Jonson prologue to Cynthias Revels | 37 |
4 John Weever Jonson as humorist | 39 |
5 Nicholas Breton on the satirical fashion | 41 |
6 Ben Jonson Poetaster | 43 |
7 Thomas Dekker Horace untrussed | 51 |
93 John Dryden Jonson and Fletcher matched at last | 331 |
94 Beat Louis de Muralt on Jonson and Molière | 333 |
95 William Wotton on Jonsons Grammar | 335 |
96 John Dennis and William Congreve on Jonsons comedy | 337 |
97 Jeremy Collier on Jonson as a model playwright | 343 |
98 William Congreve and Jeremy Collier on profanity in Bartholomew Fair | 347 |
99 William Burnaby Jonson a model for the comedy of characters and action | 349 |
100 John Dennis on Jonsons comedy | 351 |
8 Charles Fitzgeffrey on Jonson | 67 |
9 Cambridge views on the War of the Theatres | 69 |
10 Henry Chettle Jonsons steel pen | 71 |
11 Samuel Daniel attacks the learned masque | 73 |
12 Thomas Dekker on Jonsons pedantry | 75 |
13 John Marston tribute to Jonson | 77 |
14 Sir Edward Herbert on Jonsons Horace | 79 |
15 Jonson as laureate | 81 |
16 On Sejanus | 83 |
17 John Marston glances at Sejanus | 89 |
18 Ben Jonson on his masques | 91 |
19 On Volpone | 93 |
20 Ben Jonson more principles for the masque | 99 |
21 Jonsons comedy malicious and factious | 101 |
22 Ben Jonson prologue to The Alchemist | 103 |
23 On Catiline | 105 |
24 John Selden on Jonsons scholarship | 109 |
25 Ben Jonson Bartholomew Fair | 111 |
26 On Jonsons epigrams | 113 |
27 William Fennor on the reception of Sejanus | 115 |
28 Robert Anton Jonson among the melancholic creators | 117 |
29 From The Workes of Benjamin Jonson | 119 |
30 William Drummond Jonsons character | 123 |
31 Inigo Jones attack on Jonson | 125 |
32 Edmund Bolton on Jonsons language | 127 |
33 George Chapman expostulation with Jonson | 129 |
34 Ben Jonson on The Staple of News | 135 |
35 Nicholas Oldisworth on Jonson | 137 |
36 Controversy over The New Inn | 139 |
37 Falkland on Jonson as the dispenser of fame | 151 |
38 Leonard Digges Shakespeares plays more popular than Jonsons | 155 |
39 Thomas Randolph on the power of Jonsons verses | 159 |
40 Ben Jonson The Magnetic Lay | 161 |
41 Alexander Gill attack on The Magnetic Lady | 165 |
42 James Howell letters to Jonson | 167 |
43 Sir John Suckling caricature of Jonson | 169 |
44 Ben Jonson prologue to The Sad Shepherd | 171 |
45 Sir John Suckling Jonsons arrogance | 173 |
46 James Shirley on Jonson and The Alchemist | 175 |
47 Newcastle tribute to Jonson | 177 |
48 George Stutvile Jonson as tutor | 179 |
49 Tributes from Jonsonus Virbius | 181 |
50 George Daniel elegy on Jonson | 207 |
51 John Benson dedication of Jonsons Poems | 209 |
52 On Jonsons translation of Horaces Ars Poetica | 211 |
53 James Shirley on Shakespeare Fletcher and Jonson | 215 |
54 William Cartwright on Jonsons lovescenes | 217 |
55 Robert Herrick tributes to Jonson | 219 |
56 Edmund Gayton Jonson the scholars playwright | 221 |
57 On reviving Jonson at the Restoration | 223 |
58 Samuel Pepys on performances of Epicoene and Bartholomew Fair | 225 |
59 The Play of the Puritan | 227 |
60 Margaret Cavendish on Jonsons plays | 229 |
61 Thomas Fuller portrait of Jonson | 231 |
62 Richard Flecknoe Jonsons part in the history of the English stage | 233 |
63 Samuel Pepys on performances of Epicoene and Bartholomew Fair | 235 |
64 SaintEvremond Jonson central to a French view of English comedy | 237 |
65 Samuel Butler on Jonson and Shakespeare | 241 |
66 Samuel Pepys reads Every Man in his Humour sees Epicoene | 243 |
67 John Drydens Essay | 245 |
68 John Dryden makes Shakespeare monarch over Fletcher and Jonson | 255 |
69 John Dryden Jonsons borrowings | 257 |
70 Thomas Shadwell on Jonsons humour comedy | 259 |
71 John Dryden cites Jonson in the controversy over rhymed drama | 261 |
72 Samuel Pepys on Bartholomew Fair Epicoene Catiline and The Alchemist | 263 |
73 Clarendon on Jonsons talents and achievements | 267 |
74 Charles Sackville epilogue to an Every Man in his Humour revival | 269 |
75 Richard Flecknoe answers Dryden on Jonson | 271 |
76 John Dryden explains his view of Jonson | 273 |
77 Thomas Shadwell defends his estimate of Jonson | 277 |
78 Edward Howard on Jonson | 281 |
79 Edward Howard on Jonsons imaginary creations | 285 |
80 Edward Ravenscroft Jonson the model for didactic comedy | 287 |
81 On Jonson and Shakespeare | 289 |
82 John Dryden on the faults of predecessors like Jonson | 291 |
83 Aphra Behn on Shakespeare and Jonson | 297 |
84 Edward Howard Jonson unparalleled among ancient or modern authors | 299 |
85 Edward Phillips on Jonsons achievements | 301 |
86 John Dryden Jonson distinguished from Shadwell | 303 |
87 John Oldham on Jonson | 305 |
88 John Dryden low farce in Volpone | 315 |
89 Edward Howard on Jonsons allegory and on a statue of Jonson | 317 |
90 Gerald Langbaine notes on Jonson | 319 |
91 Thomas Rymer on Catiline | 325 |
92 Nahum Tate farce in Jonson | 329 |
101 Jonson discussed in a critical dialogue on the theatre | 353 |
102 Jonson returns from the shades to castigate Thomas Baker | 355 |
103 Samuel Cobb Jonsons notable thefts and successful piracies | 357 |
104 Richard Steele on Jonson | 359 |
105 Nicholas Rowe Jonsons evil eye on Shakespeare | 361 |
106 Charles Gildon on Jonson | 363 |
107 Richard Steele on Jonsons plays as description and instruction | 365 |
108 John Dennis Jonson no guide to Shakespeare for tragedy | 367 |
109 Lewis Theobald as Benjamin Johnson | 369 |
110 John Dennis on suggestibility in The Alchemist | 371 |
111 John Dennis Jonson invoked against Steele | 373 |
112 Charles Gildon Jonson the master of comedy | 375 |
113 John Dennis Jonson the authority for the comedy of ridicule | 377 |
114 Alexander Pope on the relations between Shakespeare and Jonson | 379 |
115 Alexander Pope observations on Jonson | 381 |
116 Shakespeare and the actors defended against Pope and Jonson | 383 |
117 William Levin Shakespeare and Jonson a lesson to their successors | 385 |
118 Jonsons comedy obsolete | 387 |
119 A proper reaction to Volpone | 389 |
120 William Warburton and Lewis Theobald on Jonson | 393 |
121 Alexander Pope on Jonsons inflated popular reputation | 395 |
122 Algernon Sidney on Catiline | 397 |
123 Henry Fielding on Jonson | 401 |
124 Corbyn Morris humours in Shakespeare and Jonson | 405 |
125 David Garrick the acting of Drugger and Macbeth | 409 |
126 Sarah Fielding David Simple hears a critic on Shakespeare and Jonson | 411 |
127 William Guthrie Jonson the Poussin of drama | 413 |
128 Unsigned review of La Places Catiline | 415 |
129 Samuel Johnson Shakespeare and Jonson | 419 |
130 Charles Macklin a forged pamphlet on Jonson | 421 |
131 Edmund Burke Jonson and true comedy | 425 |
132 John Upton on Jonson | 427 |
133 Richard Hurd on Catiline and on Shakespeare versus Jonson | 431 |
134 Thomas Seward on Jonson Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher | 433 |
135 William Guthrie Jonson and human nature | 435 |
136 Garricks Every Man in his Humour revival | 437 |
137 Francis Gentleman Sejanus | 441 |
138 Bonnell Thornton review of Epicoene | 443 |
139 Theophilus Cibber and Robert Shiells summary criticism of Jonson | 445 |
140 Richard Hurd Every Man out of his Humour The Alchemist Volpone | 447 |
141 Arthur Murphy essays in The Grays Inn Journal | 451 |
142 David Hume Jonsons rude art | 453 |
143 Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier Jonsons envy of Shakespeare | 455 |
144 Peter Whalleys edition of Jonson | 459 |
145 Richard Hurd Jonsons imitations | 473 |
146 Arthur Murphy articles in The London Chronicle | 477 |
147 Thomas Wilkes on Jonson and on Jonson actors of the day | 481 |
148 Edward Young Jonson and the load of learning | 483 |
149 Charles Churchill Jonsons judgement | 485 |
150 Garrick as Abel Drugger | 487 |
151 Horace Walpole on Jonson | 489 |
152 Samuel Rogers Shakespeare and Jonson | 491 |
153 David Erskine Baker on Jonson | 493 |
154 Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg on Jonson | 497 |
155 John Brown Bartholomew Fair revised | 499 |
156 Edward Capell Jonsons borrowings | 501 |
157 Jonson strong without passion | 505 |
158 James Beattie Jonsons misuse of learning | 507 |
159 Elizabeth Montague Jonson and Shakespeare | 509 |
160 Francis Gentleman Jonson a bad writer | 511 |
161 Charles Jenner Sir Charles Beville at The Alchemist | 513 |
162 Francis Gentlemans The Tobacconist | 517 |
163 George Colmans revival of Volpone | 521 |
164 Doubts on Jonson and the old dramatists | 525 |
165 Shakespeare and Jonson compared | 529 |
166 George Steevens on Jonson | 531 |
167 Lord Camden on reading Ben Jonson | 533 |
168 Francis Gentleman notes on Jonsons ode to Shakespeare | 535 |
169 David Garrick on confidence tricks in The Alchemist | 537 |
170 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Garricks Abel Drugger | 539 |
171 George Colmans Epicoene | 541 |
172 Kitely preferred to Ford | 547 |
173 Thomas Davies on Jonson revivals | 549 |
174 BWalwyn Falstaff and Bobadil | 551 |
175 Colmans Volpone revived | 555 |
176 Thomas Davies observations on Jonson | 559 |
177 George Colman Jonsons intentions in The Sad Shepherd | 567 |
178 Richard Cumberland on Jonson | 569 |
179 Henry Sampson Woodfall Jun Jonsons vain contention with Shakespeare | 575 |
180 Philip Neve on Jonson | 577 |
181 Ludwig Tieck on Shakespeare and Jonson | 579 |
182 Nathan Drake Jonsons inferior genius | 583 |
Bibliography | 585 |
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