ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the material themselves.

chapter |28 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|2 pages

John Weever, Marston and Jonson, 1599

chapter 4|2 pages

John Weever, Jonson as humorist, 1601

chapter 6|8 pages

Ben Jonson, Poetaster, 1601

chapter 7|16 pages

Thomas Dekker, Horace untrussed, 1601–2

chapter 8|2 pages

Charles Fitzgeffrey on Jonson, 1601

chapter 10|2 pages

Henry Chettle, Jonson’s steel pen, 1603

chapter 12|2 pages

Thomas Dekker on Jonson’s pedantry, 1604

chapter 13|2 pages

John Marston, tribute to Jonson, 1604

chapter 15|2 pages

Jonson as laureate, 1605

chapter 16|6 pages

On Sejanus, 1605

chapter 17|2 pages

John Marston glances at Sejanus, 1606

chapter 18|2 pages

Ben Jonson on his masques, 1606

chapter 19|6 pages

On Volpone, 1605–7

chapter 23|4 pages

On Catiline, 1611

chapter 25|2 pages

Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, 1614

chapter 26|2 pages

On Jonson’s epigrams, 1615

chapter 29|4 pages

From The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, 1616

chapter 32|2 pages

Edmund Bolton on Jonson’s language, 1621

chapter 34|2 pages

Ben Jonson on The Staple of News, 1626

chapter 35|2 pages

Nicholas Oldisworth on Jonson, 1629

chapter 36|12 pages

Controversy over The New Inn, 1629–31

chapter 40|4 pages

Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lady, 1632

chapter 42|2 pages

James Howell, letters to Jonson, 1632–5

chapter 49|26 pages

Tributes from Jonsonus Virbius, 1638

chapter 50|2 pages

George Daniel, elegy on Jonson, 1638

chapter 55|2 pages

Robert Herrick, tributes to Jonson, 1648

chapter 59|2 pages

The Play of the Puritan, 1661

chapter 61|2 pages

Thomas Fuller, portrait of Jonson, 1662

chapter 67|10 pages

John Dryden’s Essay, 1667

chapter 69|2 pages

John Dryden, Jonson’s borrowings, 1668

chapter 78|4 pages

Edward Howard on Jonson, 1671

chapter 81|2 pages

On Jonson and Shakespeare, 1672

chapter 83|2 pages

Aphra Behn on Shakespeare and Jonson, 1673

chapter 87|10 pages

John Oldham on Jonson, 1678

chapter 88|2 pages

John Dryden, low farce in Volpone, 1683

chapter 90|6 pages

Gerald Langbaine, notes on Jonson, 1691

chapter 91|4 pages

Thomas Rymer on Catiline, 1692

chapter 92|2 pages

Nahum Tate, farce in Jonson, 1693

chapter 100|2 pages

JOHN DENNIS on Jonson’s comedy, 1702

chapter 104|2 pages

Richard Steele on Jonson, 1709

chapter 106|2 pages

Charles Gildon on Jonson, 1710

chapter 118|2 pages

Jonson’s comedy obsolete, 1732

chapter 119|4 pages

A proper reaction to Volpone, 1733

chapter 122|4 pages

Algernon Sidney on Catiline, 1739

chapter 123|4 pages

Henry Fielding on Jonson, 1740, 1742

chapter 129|2 pages

Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare and Jonson, 1747

chapter 131|2 pages

Edmund Burke, Jonson and true comedy, 1748

chapter 132|4 pages

John Upton on Jonson, 1749

chapter 137|2 pages

Francis Gentleman, Sejanus, 1751

chapter 138|2 pages

Bonnell Thornton, review of Epicoene, 1752

chapter 142|2 pages

David Hume, Jonson’s rude art, 1754

chapter 144|14 pages

Peter Whalley’s edition of Jonson, 1756

chapter 145|4 pages

Richard Hurd, Jonson’s imitations, 1757

chapter 150|2 pages

Garrick as Abel Drugger, 1762

chapter 151|2 pages

Horace Walpole on Jonson, 1762–76

chapter 152|2 pages

Samuel Rogers, Shakespeare and Jonson, 1763

chapter 153|4 pages

David Erskine Baker on Jonson, 1764

chapter 155|2 pages

John Brown, Bartholomew Fair revised, 1765

chapter 156|4 pages

Edward Capell, Jonson’s borrowings, 1766

chapter 157|2 pages

Jonson strong without passion, 1767

chapter 160|2 pages

Francis Gentleman, Jonson a bad writer, 1770

chapter 163|4 pages

George Colman’s revival of Volpone, 1771

chapter 165|2 pages

Shakespeare and Jonson compared, 1772

chapter 166|2 pages

George Steevens on Jonson, 1773–8

chapter 167|2 pages

LORD CAMDEN, on reading Jonson, 1774

chapter 171|6 pages

George Colman’s Epicoene, 1776

chapter 172|2 pages

Kitely preferred to Ford, 1778

chapter 173|2 pages

Thomas Davies on Jonson revivals, 1780

chapter 174|4 pages

B.Walwyn, Falstaff and Bobadil, 1782

chapter 175|4 pages

Colman’s Volpone revived, 1783

chapter 178|6 pages

Richard Cumberland on Jonson, 1786–8

chapter 180|2 pages

Philip Neve on Jonson, 1789

chapter 181|4 pages

Ludwig Tieck on Shakespeare and Jonson, 1794