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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