POETRY & DRAMA
BIOGRAPHY
REFERENCE
ROMANCE

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POETS ARE THE TRUMPETS WHICH SING TO BATTLE........POETS ARE THE
UNACKNOWLEDGED LEGISLATORS OF THE WORLD
- SHELLEY


THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF BEN JONSON
VOLUME ONE

FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION: 1910
REPRINTED: 1915



INTRODUCTION

THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first
literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose,
satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time
affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben
Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to
us almost unparalleled, at least in his age.