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The folio collections of Ben Jonson's works published in the seventeenth century were crucial developments in the publication of English literature and English Renaissance drama. The first folio collection, issued in 1616,〔Brady and Herendeen, pp. 11–22 and ff.〕 treated stage plays as serious works of literature instead of popular ephemera—at the time, a controversial position. The 1616 folio stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed—most notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, but also the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647, and other collections that were important in preserving the dramatic literature of the age for subsequent generations. ==The first folio, 1616== The first Jonson folio of 1616, printed and published by William Stansby and sold through bookseller Richard Meighen,〔When printers like Stansby acted as publishers, they usually had to arrange with one or more booksellers to sell their books—as, for one example, Thomas Creede sold his books through William Barley.〕 contained nine plays, all previously published, plus two works of non-dramatic poetry, thirteen masques, and six "entertainments." *Plays: * * ''Every Man in His Humour'' * * ''Every Man out of His Humour'' * * ''Cynthia's Revels'' * * ''The Poetaster'' * * ''Sejanus: His Fall'' * * ''Volpone'' * * ''Epicoene, or the Silent Woman'' * * ''The Alchemist'' * * ''Catiline: His Conspiracy'' * Poetry: * * ''Epigrams'' * * ''The Forest'' * Masques: * * ''The Masque of Blackness'' * * ''The Masque of Beauty'' * * ''Hymenaei'' * * ''The Hue and Cry After Cupid'' * * ''The Masque of Queens'' * * ''The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers'' * * ''Oberon, the Faery Prince'' * * ''Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly'' * * ''Love Restored'' * * ''A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage'' * * ''The Irish Masque at Court'' * * ''Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists'' * * ''The Golden Age Restored'' * Entertainments: * * ''The King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation'' (Coronation Triumph'' ) * * ''A Panegyre, on the Happy Entrance of James'' * * ''A Particular Entertainment of the Queen and Prince (at Althorp)'' (Satyr'' ) * * ''A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen (on May-Day)'' (Penates'' ) * * ''The Entertainment of the Two Kings (of Great Britain and Denmark)'' (Hours'' ) * * ''An Entertainment of King James and Queen Anne'' The first five of the masques, from ''Blackness'' through ''Queens'', had been printed previously, as had three of the entertainments, the ''Panegyre'', and the ''Epigrams''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Jonson folios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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