| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | The Alchemist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William b... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'It is now 7 o'clock ... Wm. is still on his bed ..... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | To Penshurst | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. I ate a little bit of ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | To Penshurst | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 9 March 1802: 'William was reading in Ben Jonson -- he read me a beauti... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a litt... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'He [William Wordsworth] is now reading Ben Jonson ... I... | William Wordsworth | Ben Jonson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permane... | Edmund Gosse | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Ben Jonson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Alchemist, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ben Jonson | The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | Ben Jonson | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner and then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's "Cateline", a very excellent piece.' | Samuel Pepys | Ben Jonson | Cateline | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then went home and read a piece of a play (Every Man in his Humour, wherein is the greatest propriety of speech t... | Samuel Pepys | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | The Fountaine of Selfe-Love. Or, Cynthia's Revels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Volpone, or the Foxe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Alchymist, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the fall of Sejanus' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sejanus his Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Catiline's Conspiracy - Strath allan' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Catiline his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 31 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & Epicoene or the silent woman' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 32 Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Volpone - S reads Arist[o]phanes & Anarcharsis' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | The Magnetick Lady, or Humours reconciled | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Bartholomew Fair of Ben Johnson [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Bartholomew Fayre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus --
[...]
'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Seja... | Claire Clairmont | Ben Jonson | Sejanus His Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The case is altered of B. Jonson' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Case is Altered, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Alchemist, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the New Inn of Ben Jonson & 2 canto's of Dante with S. - he reads the Alchemist aloud in the evening'. | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | New Inn, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - Read the Poetaster' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Poetaster, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - & Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening - read 24th Canto of Dante with him' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sad Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Lucan - S. reads Calderon - Dante with me - & finishes the Sad Shepherd aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sad Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Ben Jonson | Catiline his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Fall of Sejanus aloud. reads Hobbes. On Man.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Sejanus, his Fall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Hobbes - Catalines plot aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Cataline, his Conspiracy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the Case is Altered of B.[en] Jonson aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Case is Altered, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'copy for S. - he reads to me the tale of a Tub' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'walk with S. - he reads Every Man in his humour aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ben Jonson | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Ben Jonson | masques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman.... | Virginia Woolf | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or The Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Ben Jonson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpon... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Which reminds me I noticed an extract from Ben Jonson the other day which said 'the third requisite in our poet, or m... | Philip Larkin | Ben Jonson | extract | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Ben Jonson | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | R.B. Graham | Ben Jonson | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Charles Evans | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Rosamund Wallis | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His last works were Spiritual hymns and which he wrote very well. In his own line of Society he was said to exhibit ... | Walter Scott | Ben Jonson | Everyman in his Humour | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | Charles I. Evans | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | George Burrow | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | Reginald H. Robson | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |