A Celebration of Ben Jonson

This handsome little volume is a gathering of six papers presented at the 1972 Toronto conference marking the 400th anniversary of Jonson's birth.The names of the authors guarantee their professional excellence.In addition to the six printed here, the conference heard a number of other papers which we can find in various journals.Introduced by Professor William Blissett, who had the chief responsibility for this book, the volume concludes with a listing of members of the conference.The University of Toronto, which sponsored this celebration, is to be commended for the style with which it manages such things; and we who were not there can only regret our absence.The essays begin with a provocative piece on "The Incredibility of Jonsonian Comedy."In it Clifford Leech notes that for all their firmly didactic purpose and realistic trappings, the careful craftsmanship of the plays-their "narrow restriction of time and place" and

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