Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) collected his plays and other writings into a book he titled The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. In 1616 it was printed in London in the form of a folio. Second and third editions of his works were published posthumously in 1640 and 1692. These editions of Ben Jonson's works were a crucial development in the publication of English Renaissance drama. The first folio collection, The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, treated stage plays as serious works of literature and stood as a precedent for other play collections that followed—notably the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1647, and other collections that were important in preserving the dramatic literature of the age. The first folio, 1616 The Workes of Benjamin Jonson, the first Jonson folio of 1616, printed and published by William Stansby and sold through bookseller Richard Meighen, contained nine plays all previously published, two works of non-dramatic poetry, thirteen masques, and six "entertainments". Plays: Every Man in His Humour Every Man out of His Humour Cynthia's Revels The Poetaster Sejanus His Fall Volpone Epicoene, or the Silent Woman The Alchemist Catiline His Conspiracy Poetry: Epigrams The Forest Masques: The Masque of Blackness The Masque of Beauty Hymenaei The Hue and Cry After Cupid The Masque of Queens The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers Oberon, the Faery Prince Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly Love Restored A Challenge at Tilt, at a Marriage The Irish Masque at Court Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists The Golden Age Restored Entertainments: The King's Entertainment in Passing to His Coronation [The Coronation Triumph] A Panegyre, on the Happy Entrance of James A Particular Entertainment of the Queen and Prince (at Althorp) [The Satyr] A Private Entertainment of the King and Queen (on May-Day) [The Penates] The Entertainment of the Two Kings (of Great Britain and Denmark) [The Hours] An Entertainment of King James and Queen Anne The first five of the masques, from The Masque of Blackness through The Masque of Queens, had been printed previously; as had A Panegyre, on the Happy Entrance of James and the Epigrams. The abortive 1631 addition In 1631 Jonson planned a second volume to be added to the 1616 folio, a collection of later-written works to be published by Robert Allot. Jonson, however, became dissatisfied with the quality of