| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| Horatian satire | satire, Jonson |
| Juvenalian satire | Jonson, satire |
| Morality Play | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Skelton, Marlowe, Jonson, allegory, interlude, miracle play, moral interlude, mystery play, medieval drama |
| act | drama/general, Renaissance Drama, Ben Jonson |
| anti-masque | drama, Renaissance Drama, Ben Jonson |
| buskin | drama, tragedy, Ben Jonson poetry, Shakespeare play |
| caricature | elements of literature, drama, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare, Massinger, Ben Jonson |
| citizen comedy | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Dekker, Middleton, Ben Jonson |
| classicism | Renaissance lit., Ben Jonson |
| comedy | drama genre, comedy, Renaissance literature, Renaissance criticism, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Ben Jonson, British literary history |
| comedy of humours | drama genre, comedy, Renaissance drama, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Chapman, Middleton, Massinger |
| comedy of morals | drama genre, Ben Jonson |
| commedia dell'arte | comedy, drama history, Renaissance drama, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare play |
| commonplace book | Ben Jonson |
| coterie | Renaissance lit., Ben Jonson |
| country house poem | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell |
| elegy | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Donne, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Carew, John Cleveland, Ben Jonson, Henry King, John Milton, British literary history, Spenser, Sidney |
| epigram | literary genre, stylistic device, rhetorical device, poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Jonson, Donne, Herrick, Drummond, British literary history |
| epithalamion | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Suckling |
| farce | drama genre, comedy, general literary history, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson, Marlowe |
| heroic couplet | stanza form, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hall, Drayton, Fletcher, Beaumont, Donne, Waller, Denham |
| humours | Renaissance lit., Burton, Renaissance drama, Jonson |
| incantation | stylistic device, rhetorical device, element of poetry, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Renaissance drama |
| invective | element of literature, Renaissance lit., Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Lodge, Marston, Jonson |
| lyric | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, Shakespeare, Campion, Drayton, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Carew, Marvell, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan |
| masque | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Jonson, Shakespeare play, Dekker, John Ford, Milton, Sidney, Daniel, Chapman, Shirley, Carew, Fletcher, Campion, Beaumont, Middleton |
| miles gloriosus | Greek drama, comedy, Renaissance drama, Nicholas Udall, Jonson |
| motion | drama genre, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson |
| octosyllabic verse | meter, rhythm, Milton, Jonson |
| ode | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Daniel, DRayton, Jonson, Marvell, British literary history |
| pastoral | literary genre, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Drayton, Jonson, Shirley, Sidney, Donne, Fletcher, Milton, Marvell, British literary history |
| pensee | nonfiction prose genre, Jonson, character, commonplace book, diary & journal, essay obiter dicta, sententia |
| quidproquo | element of drama, comedy, Shakespeare play, Jonson play |
| satire | satire, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, British literary history, Donne, Marston, Hall, Jonson |
| satirical comedy | comedy, satire, Jonson |
| song | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Campion, Suckling, Herrick, Lovelace, Jonson, Milton, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Dekker, Beaumont&Fletcher, Jonson play, Suckling play, Shirley, British literary history, Rest&18thc Brit. lit. |
| sonnet | sonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry |
| stock character | element of literature, characterization, Renaissance drama, Shakespeare play, Jonson play |
| table-talk | nonfiction prose genre, general literary history, Jonson, Renaissance lit., aphorism, rest&18c british lit., long entry |
| tribe of Ben | Renaissance lit., Ben Jonson, Herrick, Carew, John Suckling, Lovelace, Randolph, Godolphin, metaphysical, school of spenser |
| universality | element of literature, Longinus, satire, Aristophanes, Juvenal, Erasmus, Ben Jonson, Moliere, Dryden, Swift, Voltaire, Pope, Samuel Butler, quod semper quod ubique, taste |
| villain | plot, character, Renaissance lit., medieval lit., drama, medieval drama, Renaissance drama, Machiavelli, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Dekker, Ben Jonson, Barnaby Barnes, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle, Tourneur, John Webster, Middleton, Rowley |