John Milton wrote hundreds of things. The goal of this bibliography is to be useful to someone interested his major works and the most important biographies and commentaries. For a more comprehensive guide see the John Milton Virtual Library from IBUKI from which this page has been extracted.

Works by John Milton

• Plays

  A Tale of a Tub, comedy (c. 1596 revised performed 1633; printed 1640)
  The Isle of Dogs, comedy (1597, with Thomas Nashe; lost)
  The Case is Altered, comedy (c. 1597–98; printed 1609), possibly with Henry Porter and Anthony Munday
  Every Man in His Humour, comedy (performed 1598; printed 1601)
  Every Man out of His Humour, comedy ( performed 1599; printed 1600)
  Cynthia's Revels (performed 1600; printed 1601)
  The Poetaster, comedy (performed 1601; printed 1602)
  Sejanus His Fall, tragedy (performed 1603; printed 1605)
  Eastward Ho, comedy (performed and printed 1605), a collaboration with John Marston and George Chapman
  Volpone, comedy (c. 1605–06; printed 1607)
  Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, comedy (performed 1609; printed 1616)
  The Alchemist, comedy (performed 1610; printed 1612)
  Catiline His Conspiracy, tragedy (performed and printed 1611)
  Bartholomew Fair, comedy (performed 31 October 1614; printed 1631)
  The Devil is an Ass, comedy (performed 1616; printed 1631)
  The Staple of News, comedy (performed Feb. 1626; printed 1631)
  The New Inn, or The Light Heart, comedy (licensed 19 January 1629; printed 1631)
  The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled, comedy (licensed 12 October 1632; printed 1641)
  The Sad Shepherd, pastoral (c. 1637, printed 1641), unfinished
  Mortimer His Fall, history (printed 1641), a fragment
  Masques[edit]
  The Coronation Triumph, or The King's Entertainment (performed 15 March 1604; printed 1604); with Thomas Dekker
  A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen on May-Day (The Penates) (1 May 1604; printed 1616)
  The Entertainment of the Queen and Prince Henry at Althorp (The Satyr) (25 June 1603; printed 1604)
  The Masque of Blackness (6 January 1605; printed 1608)
  Hymenaei (5 January 1606; printed 1606)
  The Entertainment of the Kings of Great Britain and Denmark (The Hours) (24 July 1606; printed 1616)
  The Masque of Beauty (10 January 1608; printed 1608)
  The Masque of Queens (2 February 1609; printed 1609)
  The Hue and Cry After Cupid, or The Masque at Lord Haddington's Marriage (9 February 1608; printed c. 1608)
  The Entertainment at Britain's Burse (11 April 1609; lost, rediscovered 1997)[51]
  The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers, or The Lady of the Lake (6 January 1610; printed 1616)
  Oberon, the Faery Prince (1 January 1611; printed 1616)
  Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly (3 February 1611; printed 1616)
  Love Restored (6 January 1612; printed 1616)
  A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage (27 December 1613/1 January 1614; printed 1616)
  The Irish Masque at Court (29 December 1613; printed 1616)
  Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists (6 January 1615; printed 1616)
  The Golden Age Restored (1 January 1616; printed 1616)
  Christmas, His Masque (Christmas 1616; printed 1641)
  The Vision of Delight (6 January 1617; printed 1641)
  Lovers Made Men, or The Masque of Lethe, or The Masque at Lord Hay's (22 February 1617; printed 1617)
  Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue (6 January 1618; printed 1641) The masque was a failure; Jonson revised it by placing the anti-masque first, turning it into:
  For the Honour of Wales (17 February 1618; printed 1641)
  News from the New World Discovered in the Moon (7 January 1620: printed 1641)
  The Entertainment at Blackfriars, or The Newcastle Entertainment (May 1620?; MS)
  Pan's Anniversary, or The Shepherd's Holy-Day (19 June 1620?; printed 1641)
  The Gypsies Metamorphosed (3 and 5 August 1621; printed 1640)
  The Masque of Augurs (6 January 1622; printed 1622)
  Time Vindicated to Himself and to His Honours (19 January 1623; printed 1623)
  Neptune's Triumph for the Return of Albion (26 January 1624; printed 1624)
  The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth (19 August 1624; printed 1641)
  The Fortunate Isles and Their Union (9 January 1625; printed 1625)
  Love's Triumph Through Callipolis (9 January 1631; printed 1631)
  Chloridia: Rites to Chloris and Her Nymphs (22 February 1631; printed 1631)
  The King's Entertainment at Welbeck in Nottinghamshire (21 May 1633; printed 1641)
  Love's Welcome at Bolsover ( 30 July 1634; printed 1641)
  Other works[edit]
  Epigrams (1612)
  The Forest (1616), including To Penshurst
  On My First Sonne (1616), elegy
  A Discourse of Love (1618)
  Barclay's Argenis, translated by Jonson (1623)
  The Execration against Vulcan (1640)
  Horace's Art of Poetry, translated by Jonson (1640), with a commendatory verse by Edward Herbert
  Underwood (1640)
  English Grammar (1640)
  Timber, or Discoveries made upon men and matter, as they have flowed out of his daily readings, or had their reflux to his peculiar notion of the times, a commonplace book
  To Celia (Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes), poem
  

The Collected Works of Ben Jonson

• The first edition of the second volume of the collected works, the first volume having appeared in 1616
  
  Each work, except the Masques, has separate t.-p., the first three with imprint: London, Printed by I.B. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare, in Pauls Church-yard. 1631. The remaining titles, dated 1640-41, give neither printer nor publisher
  
  Paging and signatures are in five groups (broken by having The Staple of Newes, and Masques bound out of place): Bartholomew Fayre, and The Diuell is an Asse, 6p. 1., 170p. (89-90 omitted between plays) signatures: A6, B-M4, N-Y4; The Staple of Newes, 75, [1]p., signatures: Aa-Bb4, Cc1-2, C3-4, D-H4, I6; The Magnetick lady, Tale of a tub, Sad Sheperd, 155p. (numb. 70-79 repeated, and 123-132 omitted) signatures: A-P4, Q3, R-V4; Masques, Under-woods, and Mortimer, 292p., signatures: B-Q4, R2, S-X4, Y2, Z4, Aa-Oo4, Pp2, Qq4; Horace, English grammar, and Timber, 132p., signatures: A-K4, L2, M-R6
  
  Errors in paging: Bartholomew Fayre, p.12-13, 31, printed 6, 3, 13; Staple of Newes, p.19, 22, 63, printed 9, 16, 36; Diuell is an Asse, p. 99, 132, 137 printed 97, 124, 129; Sad Shepherd, p. 151, 154 printed 143 and 146; Under-woods, p. 285 printed 283
  
  Bartholmew Fayre. 1631.-The Staple of Newes. 1631.-The Diuell is an Asse. 1631.-The Magnetick Lady. 1640.-A Tale of a Tub. 1640.- The sad Shepherd. 1641.-Under-woods. Consisting of divers Poems. 1640.-Mortimer his Fall. 1640.-Masques.-Horace, his Art of Poetrie, made English. 1640.-The English Grammar. 1640.-Timber: or, Discoveries. 1641
  
  Clark Library copy: 6 p.l., 88, 75, [1] p., 1 l., 93-170 p., 1 l., 163-292, 159, 155, 132 p.; bound in old sprinkled calf; lettered on back: Ben: Ionsons Works v.2
  Notes
  
  Numerous pages mislabeled, but content of text is consistent.
  
  

• 1. Memoirs of Jonson, &c. 
     Every man in his humour.
  2. Every man out of his humour.
     Cynthia's revels: or, The fountain of self-love.
     The poetaster; or, His arraignment
  3. Sejanus
     Volpone; or, The fox
     Epicoene; or, The silent woman
  4. The alchemist
     Catiline
     Bartholomew fair
  5. The devil is an ass
     The staple of news
     The New inn; or, The light heart
  6. The magnetic lady; or, Humours reconciled
     A tale of a tub
     The sad shepherd: or, A tale of Robin Hood
     The case is altered. Entertainments, &c.
  7. Masques at court
  8. Masques [continued]
     Epigrams
     Underwoods
  9. Underwoods [continued]
     Translations, &c. 
     Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
     English grammar
     Jonsonus Virbius: or, The memory of Ben Jonson
     Glossarial index
  

Works about Ben Jonson