1873. Volume Three of Three. Edited by Lt. Colonel Francis Cunningham. Dramatist, poet, scholar and writer of court masques, Ben Jonson was the leading literary figure during the reign of King James I. Jonson was known as an avid scholar of Latin and Greek, and his mastery of the classics, the high-spirited buoyancy of his plays and the brilliance of his language have earned him a reputation as one of the great playwrights in English literature. Jonson was appointed court poet in 1605, and became a writer of court masques-elaborate spectacles that involved music, dancing, and pageantry. Contents of the Third Volume: 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 Fairy 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; Christmas His Masque; The Masque of Lethe; The Vision of Delight; Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue; For the Honour of Wales; News from the New World in the Moon; A Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies; The Masque of Augurs; Time Vindicated; Neptune's Triumph; Pan's Anniversary; The Masque of Owls; The Fortunate Isles and Their Union; Love's Triumph Through Callipolis; Chloridia; An Expostulation with Inigo Jones; Love's Welcome at Welbeck; Love's Welcome at Bolsover and Epigrams. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 1417944676, 1417944684.