Reviewing Ian Donaldson’s life of Ben Jonson in The New Criterion of April 2012, I noted that a new edition of Jonson’s complete works was forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.1 Now it has appeared, in seven fat volumes with a separate electronic version, overseen by three general editors including Donaldson—who provides a skillfully condensed version of his biography in Volume 1—with a team of distinguished editors for individual works, and it is a magnificent achievement. In recent years we have had notable editions of individual plays, but this is the first modern attempt to present the canon as a whole, including entertainments, masques, letters, and poems and prose writings as well. It replaces the hitherto standard multi-volume edition by C. H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson (hereafter H&S), published between 1925 and 1952, and overturns many of their conclusions. To mention only the most radical example, A Tale of a Tub, which H&S judged to be Jonson’s first play, written in collaboration in the 1590s, is now assigned to him alone and dated to 1634, making it his last completed play. Jonson was a habitual reviser of his own work, and H&S consistently took the 1616 Folio as their copy-text, respecting his final thoughts; the Cambridge editors often follow the Quartos in their wish to present the plays as closely as possible in the form in which they were originally staged or published. The print edition presents the works chronologically, in modern spelling, with