Volpone

by Ben Jonson

Published 1 January 1958
Renaissance comedy, first performed in 1605. Includes complete text in modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale Ben Jonson edition.

Sejanus

by Ben Jonson

Published 11 March 1965
This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's "historiography" and his...Read more

Every Man in his Humour

by Ben Jonson

Published December 1923
Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction. From the Yale ben Jonson edition.

Eastward Ho!

by George Chapman, etc., Ben Jonson, and John Marston

Published January 1973
This collaborative masterpiece of hilarious city comedy was performed by the Children of the Revels at the Blackfriars playhouse in 1605. The story is of an allegorical simplicity that lends itself to satire of civic mores and traditions as well as to parody of the sentimental, idealising London comedy...Read more

Bartholomew Fair

by Ben Jonson

Published 1 January 1960
Ben Jonson's comedy "Bartholomew Fair", which, after holding the stage for over a century, is now less well known, is offered here in an edition, based on the text of the first edition, which affords help to the modern producer and reader. In this play, written and acted in...Read more

Antonio and Mellida

by John Marston

Published January 1983
Antonio and Mellida was the first play by John Marston performed by the newly revived Paul's Company in 1599. Marston sought to display a variety of talents, comic, tragic, satiric and historical, advertising his own dramatic skills and the prowess of the choristers of Paul's. The play is based...Read more

The Devil is an Ass

by Ben Jonson

Published 5 May 1994
This edition of "The Devil is an Ass" (1616) aims to provide an insight into Jonson's life and work, the theatrical qualities of the play, its political background and its textual history. In his introduction, Peter Happe looks at the special place of the play in Jonson's own life,...Read more

The New Inn

by Ben Jonson

Published 25 April 1986
The New Inn, or The Light Heart is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy by English playwright and poet Ben Jonson. The New Inn is set in an inn-house in Barnett called the "Light Heart," whose host is Goodstock. Lady Frances Frampul invites some lords and gentlemen to...Read more

Epicene, or the Silent Woman

by Ben Jonson

Published 25 December 2003
"Epicene" is now one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. Brilliantly exploiting the Jacobean convention whereby boys played female roles, it satirizes the newly fashionable and sexually ambiguous world of the West End of London, where courtly wit rubs shoulders with commercial values. This authoritative edition is based...Read more