Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor                          

Selected Works:

Plays:

A Tale of a Tub, comedy - ca. 1596? revised? performed 1633; printed 1640
The Case is Altered, comedy - ca. 1597–98; printed 1609, 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 - ca. 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 - ca. 1637, printed 1641, unfinished
Mortimer his Fall, history - printed 1641, a fragment

Masques:
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 ca. 1608
The Entertainment at Britain's Burse - 11 April 1609; lost, rediscovered 2004
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:

Epigrams - 1612
The Forest - 1616, including To Penshurst
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, a commonplace book.
On My First Sonne - 1616, elegy
To Celia - Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, poem
As with other English Renaissance dramatists, a portion of Ben Jonson's literary output has not survived. In addition to The Isle of Dogs - 1597, the records suggest these lost plays as wholly or partially Jonson's work: Richard Crookback - 1602; Hot Anger Soon Cold - 1598, with Porter and Henry Chettle; Page of Plymouth - 1599, with Dekker; and Robert II, King of Scots - 1599, with Chettle and Dekker. Several of Jonson's masques and entertainments also are not extant: The Entertainment at Merchant Taylors - 1607; The Entertainment at Salisbury House for James I - 1608; and The May Lord - 1613–19.
Finally, there are questionable or borderline attributions. Jonson may have had a hand in Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother, a play in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. The comedy The Widow was printed in 1652 as the work of Thomas Middleton, Fletcher and Jonson, though scholars have been intensely skeptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, like The London Prodigal, have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses.