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Abumazar

Adams, Joseph Quincey

Allot, Robert

Andreas Capellanus

Andria

Annals of English Drama

Antipodes

Antony and Cleopatra

Argenis

Aristophanes

Aristotle

As You Like It

Astrée, L’

Aubrey, John

Bacon, Wallace A.

Baker, Lydia

Baldwin, T. W.

Ball, Robert H.

Bamborough, John

Barish, Jonas A.

Bates, Katherine Lee

Baum, Helena Watts

Beale, John

Beaumont, Francis

Bentley, G. E.

Bernard, Richard

Birth of Hercules, The

Bourne, Nicholas

Bradbrook, Muriel C.

Bradley, Jesse F.

Brome, Richard

Butter, Nathaniel

Carew, Thomas

Cartwright, William

Castelain, Maurice

Chalmers, Alexander

Chapman, George

Charles I

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chute, Marchette G.

Cicero

Cleveland, John

Cockayne, Aston

Cooper, Lane

Court Beggar, The

Currant of General News, A

Davenant, William

Dekker, Thomas

Disobedient Child, The

Don Quixote

Donatus

Doran, Madelaine

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden

Dryden, John

Dunn, Esther Cloudman

D’Urfé, Honoré

Elizabeth I

Enck, John J.

Enright, D. J.

Feltham, Owen

Field, Nathan

Fleay, F. G.

Fletcher, John

Fox, Harold G.

Fox-Bourne, H. R.

Furniss, W. T.

Gainsford, Captain

Game at Chess, A

Gascoigne, George

Gayton, Edmond

Gifford, William

Gilbert, Allan

Gill, Alexander

Glapthorne, Henry

Gondomar, Count

Gordon, D. J.

Grim, the Collier of Croydon

Harbage, Alfred

Harrington, Henry

Hart, H. C.

Hazlitt, William Carew

Henrietta Maria

Herbert, Sir Henry, Master of the Revels

Herford, Charles H.

Horace

House of Fame, The

Howell, James

If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil Is in It

Ingeland, Thomas

Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

James I

Johnson, W. S.

Jones, Inigo

JONSON, BEN:

—Critical Theory: poet as teacher-prophet

comedy as instrument of social reform

the comic writer compared to the tragic writer

the Jonsonian gulls

comic catharsis

the comic pointer

allegory in the late plays

Timber, or Discoveries

—Poems: “An Execration Upon Vulcan”

“Ode to Himself”

—Masques: A Challenge at Tilt

Chloridia

The Golden Age Restored

Hymenaei

Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly

Love Restored

Love’s Triumph Through Callipolis

Lovers Made Men

Masque of Queens

Neptune’s Triumph for the Return of Albion

News from the New World Discovered in the Moon

Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue

Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours

—Late Plays: The Devil Is an Ass

first printing: initial performance

summary of plot

five-act structure

“dangling” fifth act

morality elements: the inverted morality triad

the “double conflict” motif

the inept devil figure

Satan and Iniquity as comic pointer

on monopolies and projectors: on romantic comedy

on courtly affectation

on demoniac possession

on the fraudulency of witchcraft

The Magnetic Lady

failure of initial performance

plot summary

five-act structure

as a dramtic statement of Jonson’s ars poetica

the intercalary material as comic pointer

Compass and Ironside as a double comic pointer

as a recapitulation of Jonson’s humour characters

Dame Polish as Jonson’s best feminine creation

The New Inn

failure of initial performance

first publication,

summary of plot

five-act structure

on the pseudo-platonic love cult of Henrietta Maria

Jonson’s attitude toward the court: Goodstock’s criticism

Love’s Triumph Through Callipolis

the court of love

low characters as a parody of the court of love

on romantic comedy

romantic comedy as a frame for the court of love proceedings

Goodstock-Lovel as allegorical flyting on Old Comedy and New Comedy

The Sad Shepherd

as satiric comedy

plot summary

The Staple of News

first publication

plot summary

five-act structure

on contemporary journalistic practices

attack on malpractices

Penniboy Canter as comic pointer

the intercalary chorus as comic pointer

morality elements

prodigal son motif

Penniboy Junior as everyman figure

prodigality in the minor characters

—Other Plays: The Alchemist

Bartholomew Fair

Cynthia’s Revels

Eastward Ho

Epicoene

Every Man in His Humour

Every Man Out of His Humour

The Isle of Dogs

The Page of Plymouth

The Poetaster

A Tale of a Tub

Volpone

Jonsonus Virbius

Kernan, Alvin

King Lear

Kittredge, George Lyman

Knight of the Burning Pestle, The

Knights, L. C.

Knoll, Robert E.

Kyffin, Maurice

Love-Sick Maid, or the Honour of Young Ladies, The

Love’s Pilgrimage

Macropedius

Malone, Edmund

Marie de Champagne

Marlowe, Christopher

Marston, John

Massinger, Philip

Mayne, Jasper

Menander

Merchant of Venice, The

Meres, Francis

Merry Devil of Edmonton, The

Middleton, Thomas

Misogonus

Morison, Stanley

Nabbes, Thomas

Nason, Arthur H.

Nice Wanton, The

Nicholson, Brinsley

Noyes, Robert G.

Palmer, John

Parisitaster or the Fawn

Parliament of Love, The

Parrott, Thomas M.

Peck, Harvey Whitefield

Plautus

Plutarch

Pory, John

Prodigal Scholar, The

Projectors, The

Randolph, Thomas

Scaliger, J. C.

Schelling, Felix E.

Sensabaugh, G. F.

Shaaber, Matthias A.

Shakespeare, William

Sharpe, Robert B.

Shirley, James

Simpson, Percy

Sisson, C. J.

Smith, G. G.

Snuggs, Henry L.

Spenser, Edmund

Stubbes, Phillip

Swinburne, A. C.

Symonds, John A.

Talbert, E. W.

Taylor, John

Tennant, George Bremmer

Terence

Thayer, C. G.

Thorndike, A. H.

Tomkis, Thomas

Tractatus Coislinianus

Twelfth Night

Upham, A. H.

Walker, Ralph S.

Ward, A. W.

Weekly Newes from Italy, Germany, Hungary, Spaine, and France

Whalley, Peter

Wild, Robert

Williams, J. B.

Wilson, Robert

Winter, De

Wither, George

Woodbridge, Elisabeth