The calendar below is a listing of amateur and professional productions of Ben Jonson's plays and their adaptations from the earliest performances to the present. ‘Adaptation’ has been taken to mean any production that makes substantial alterations to an original Jonson play-text (as it exists in the folios of 1616 or 1640-41), or that uses a play by Jonson as a jumping-off point for a new work. It does not include productions that make occasional cuts and modernisations, or that relocate the action to a more recent setting leaving the text largely intact.

Inevitably, the listings for the period down to 1800 depend on information derived from The London Stage 1660-1800, eds. W. Van Lennep, E. L. Avery, A. H. Scouten, G. W. Stone, and C. B. Hogan (11 vols., 1960-79, Carbondale, IL). They also include numerous references to The London Stage. We are very grateful to the publishers for permission to draw on this data. With respect to modern and amateur productions, some of the information has come by word-of-mouth and is therefore difficult to verify. Please contact hcmc@uvic.ca if you see any problems.

Karen Britland is responsible for the listings down to 1776, Eugene Giddens for the listings from 1776 to the present, and Nick Tanner is responsible for the listings of twentieth- and twenty-first century adaptations. The editors are grateful to Karin Brown, Librarian of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, for making her data on recent Jonson revivals available to us. Show less