Ben Jonson Folios - The First Folio, 1616

The First Folio, 1616

The first Jonson folio of 1616, printed and published by William Stansby and sold through bookseller Richard Meighen, 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
  • A Panegyre, on the Happy Entrance of James
  • A Particular Entertainment of the Queen and Prince (at Althorp)
  • A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen (on May-Day)
  • The Entertainment of the Two Kings (of Great Britain and Denmark)
  • 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.