Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson (June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637) was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. He is best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist, his lyrics, his influence on Jacobean and Caroline poets, his theory of humours, his contentious personality, and his friendship and rivalry with William Shakespeare.

Jonson's works

Plays

• The Case is Altered (date unknown)
• Every Man in His Humour (1598)
• Every Man out of His Humour (1599)
• Cynthia's Revels (1600)
• Poetaster (1601)
• Sejanus (1603)
• Volpone (1606)
• Epicoene, or the Silent Woman (1609)
• The Alchemist (1610)
• Catiline his Conspiracy (1611)
• Bartholomew Fair (1614)
• The Devil is an Ass (1616)
• News from the New World Discovered in the Moon (1620)
• The Staple of News (1626)
• The New Inn (1629)
• The Magnetic Lady (1632)
• A Tale of a Tub (1633)

Masques

• The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince at Althorp (1603)
• The Coronation Triumph (1604)
• The Masque of Blackness (1605)
• Hymenaei (1606)
• Hue and Cry after Cupid (1608)
• The Masque of Beauty (1608)
• The Masque of Queens (1609)