Jonson, Ben; Harp, Richard L.

Ben Jonson's Plays & Masques 2e (NCE)

Preface vii The Staging of Jonson's Plays and Masques ix Robert M. Adams A Note on the Texts xvii The Texts of the Plays and Masques Volpone 3(108) Epicoene 111(89) The Alchemist 200(114) The Masque of Blackness 314(11) Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists at Court 325(8) Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue 333(12) Contexts Jonson on His Work 345(1) Discourses on Poetry 345(5) From Every Man in His Humour (first version, 1598) 345(1) Prologue to Every Man in His Humour (second version, 1616) 346(1) Prologue to Cynthia's Revels 347(1) From Poetaster 348(1) From ``Epistle Dedicatory'' to Volpone 349(1) Jonson's Shoptalk 350(17) From Discoveries 350(5) From Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden 355(4) Contemporary Readers on Jonson 359(1) On Ben Jonson 359(1) Sidney Godolphin Upon Ben Jonson 360(1) Edmund Waller From To the Memory of Ben. Jonson 361(1) Jasper Mayne To Ben Jonson upon Occasion of His Note of Defiance Annexed to His Play of The New Inn 362(5) Thomas Carew Backgrounds and Sources 367(141) Volpone 367(1) Beast Fable 367(9) Middle English Bestiary Natura Wulpis 367(2) How Corbant the Crow Made Complaint against the Fox for the Death of his Wife 369(1) William Caxton The Nun's Priest's Tale 370(5) Geoffrey Chaucer The Crow and the Fox 375(1) La Fontaine Legacy Hunting 376(132) Satire 2.5 376(5) Horace The Alchemist 381(1) The Alchemy Swindle 381(8) Erasmus [Alchemy: Definitions and Background] 389(10) Stanton J. Linden Criticism The Double Plot in Volpone 399(12) Jonas A. Barish Thomas Sutton: Jonson's Volpone? 411(10) Robert C. Evans [Names in Jonson's Comedies] 421(8) Anne Barton Examen of The Silent Woman 429(5) John Dryden Epicoene 434(9) Robert Watson The Alchemist 443(16) Edward B. Partridge [Jonson's Magic House] 459(9) Ian Donaldson Ben Jonson's Comic Apocalypse 468(9) Richard Harp [The Imagery of The Masque of Blackness] 477(5) D. J. Gordon [The Masque of Blackness] 482(7) Stephen Orgel Mythic Interpretations of Ideas in Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue 489(10) John Mulryan Pleasure and Virtue Reconciled 499(9) Leah S. Marcus A Chronology 508(3) Ben Jonson Selected Bibliography 511