Works: Collated With All The Former Editions, And Corrected With Notes Critical And Explanatory by Ben Jonson. This volume presents a scholarly edition of Ben Jonson's dramatic works, including his masque literature and theatre pieces such as A Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd, and various court masques. The edition offers corrected texts, critical notes, explanatory glossaries, and editorial apparatus, collating earlier editions and printing variants to present a coherent text for modern readers. The content comprises a sequence of plays and masques: Prologues and Epilogues, The Tale of a Tub, The Sad Shepherd, Masques at Court (with King James and Queen Anne entertainments), The Private Entertainment of the King and Queen, and subsequent Masques such as Blackness, Beauty, and The Golden Age Restored, among others; Also includes a critical apparatus, errata, and annotations to illuminate allusions to classical myth, Renaissance court culture, and political subtexts. The edition situates Jonson within the tradition of masque-writing and early modern drama, noting how his works fuse political satire, classical allusion, and theatrical spectacle in service of royal and aristocratic patronage.
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