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    Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 18 August [O.S. 6 August] 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on...
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    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...
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  • Wikipedia. Ben Johnson House (disambiguation) Ben Johnston (disambiguation) Ben Jonson Journal, a Scottish journal on Ben Jonson Ben Jonson folios, the...
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  • Sons of Ben were followers of Ben Jonson in English poetry and drama in the first half of the seventeenth century. These men followed Ben Jonson's philosophy...
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    works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, who hailed Shakespeare with the now famous...
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    and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature...
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    ISBN 0-312-20219-9. Herford, C. H. (1941). Percy Simpson; Evelyn Simpson (eds.). Ben Jonson. Vol. VII. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 169–201. Herrick, Robert (1825)...
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    in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's 1609 comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman. Since Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier...
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  • Ben Jonson Journal is a biannual academic journal published by Edinburgh University Press in Scotland, in May and November of each year. It was established...
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  • Men were producing plays by Shakespeare and other playwrights such as Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Johnson's main claim to fame is that...
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  • surname include: Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor Björn Jonson (born 1940), Swedish professor Fredric Jonson (born 1987)...
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  • between the imaginary space within the play and the outside world.: 2  Ben Jonson has often been noted as using the prologue to remind the audience of the...
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    Every Man in His Humour (category Plays by Ben Jonson)
    Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of "humours comedy", in which each major...
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    Volpone (category Plays by Ben Jonson)
    Ben Jonson first produced in 1605–1606, drawing on elements of city comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's...
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    drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing literary culture. James...
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  • The Devil Is an Ass (category Plays by Ben Jonson)
    The Devil Is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616, first published in 1631, and based on the events of the famous Leicester...
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  • Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (category Adaptations of works by Ben Jonson)
    the lyrics of which are the poem "To Celia" by the English playwright Ben Jonson (1572–1637), first published in 1616. Drink to me only with thine eyes...
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  • Ben Johns (born 1999), American professional pickleball player Ben Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English poet Ben...
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    circles, particularly in his role as enemy to the equally pugnacious Ben Jonson. Jonson, who reported to Drummond that Marston had accused him of sexual profligacy...
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    prominent playwrights were William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. The term English Renaissance theatre encompasses the period between 1562—following...
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    Sejanus His Fall (category Plays by Ben Jonson)
    Sejanus His Fall, a 1603 play by Ben Jonson, is a tragedy about Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the favourite of the Roman emperor Tiberius. Sejanus His Fall was...
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    discussion of critics from Ben Jonson on. Ben Jonson, 'Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden', in Herford and Simpson, ed. Ben Jonson, vol. 1, p. 139. Greene's...
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    The playwright and poet Ben Jonson knew Shakespeare from at least 1598, when the Lord Chamberlain's Men performed Jonson's play Every Man in His Humour...
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    theatre closures of 1642. As well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here. A modern reconstruction...
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  • Shakespeare. Thomas Quiney is a pub waiter and future husband of Judith. Ben Jonson is a poet and friend of William Shakespeare. Daniel Bustamonte is a resident...
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    believe it might come from one of the following: a nickname of contempt: Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe wrote a satirical play in 1597, which was a mocking attack...
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    Theatres between Ben Jonson on one side and John Marston and Thomas Dekker on the other. The conflict began in 1599 when Marston mocked Jonson with the character...
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  • 1521. It was first used in English by Ben Jonson in his 1600 play Cynthia's Revels; immediately afterwards Jonson chose it as the title of his 1601 play...
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  • undeniable fact that he is the most performed playwright of all time. Ben Jonson is preparing to enter the stage. The narrator offers to take the viewers...
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    son of Shakespeare, in the same way that followers of Ben Jonson called themselves the "Sons of Ben". However, according to Samuel Schoenbaum, since Aubrey's...
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