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• "But Worth pretends": Discovering Jonsonian Masque in Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus - Anita M. Hagerman analyzes "Wroth's connections to Ben Jonson and the possibilities the connections offer regarding both the form and content of Wroth's sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus."
• "On the Famous Voyage": Ben Jonson and Civic Space - Essay by Andrew McRae from Early Modern Literary Studies (September 1998).
• "The strangest pageant, fashion'd like a court": John Donne and Ben Jonson to 1600 -- Parallel Lives - William F. Blissett suggests that a Jonson reference to a "Dr. Done . . . encourages a consideration of the parallel literary lives of Jonson and Donne."
• (Self)-Fashioning of Ezekiel Edgworth in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, The - Essay by Jean MacIntyre from Early Modern Literary Studies 4:3 (January 1999).
• Ben Jonson Unmasked - An essay by Kathleen A. Prendergrast on Jonson's changing attitudes towards his fellow playwrights, the theater as a medium, and his own role as a dramatist.
• Ben Jonson and Cervantes - Yumiko Yamada suggests that while many studies of Cervantes make connections to Shakespeare, the connection to Jonson deserves more critical attention.
• Ben Jonson and His Folio - Critical analysis of several book chapters on Jonson.
• Ben Jonson, from The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin-Hood (1641) - Short background on Jonson's last play, excerpt, and notes.
• Book Review - Matthew Steggle reviews Ben Jonson and Theatre: Performance, Practice and Theory, by Richard Cave, et al.
• Book Review - Robert C. Evans reviews Ben Jonson: Poetry and Architecture, by A.W. Johnson.
• Book Review - Matthew Steggle reviews Ben Jonson's Antimasques: A history of growth and decline, by Lesley Mickel.
• Book Reviews - Matthew Steggle reviews Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour and Every Man Out of His Humour, Ed. Helen Ostovich.
• Jonson's Romish Foxe - Alizon Brunning argues that Volpone "can also be read as an overtly Anti-Catholic discourse."
• Jonson's Stoic Politics: Lipsius, the Greeks, and the "Speach According to Horace" - Robert C. Evans suggests comparisons between Lipsius and Jonson, for "[b]oth men seem to have equated good politics with moral goodness: the just ruler, the worthy citizen, and the ideal commonwealth should all be rooted in virtue."
• Marking his Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation - Sara van den Berg suggests that "[t]o investigate his punctuation is to investigate not only his specific practices but, even more importantly, his theory of the text."
• The Swinburne Project - A study of Ben Jonson: comedies, tragedies, masques, miscellaneous works, and discoveries.
• Theater Review - David Nicol reviews Eastward Ho!

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