Note 614 — VI THE MASK (continued)

I think Criticus must here be taken to be Jonson's self-portrait. He told Drummond in 1619 that 'by Criticus is understood Done' (Conversations, 6); but the reference there appears to be to the lost 'preface of his Arte of Poesie'. In the folio text of the play Criticus becomes Crites.