Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage

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D.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

Introduction
1
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
INDEX
599
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