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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Ben Jonson. This group seems to have been closer and more serious than the 'tribe of Ben', a group of writers who simply styled themselves on Jonson without...
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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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    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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    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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  • 1988 allegorical novel by Paulo Coelho The Alchemist (play), a play by Ben Jonson "The Alchemist" (short story), a 1908 short story by H. P. Lovecraft The...
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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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  • Bawd, squire, imposter, many persons more — Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610). Emerging from Ben Jonson's late-Elizabethan comedies of humours (1598–1599)...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Smith, Generall Historie, p. 261. Qtd. in Herford and Simpson, eds. Ben Jonson, vol. 10, 568–569 Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Vol. 19, p. 118 Price...
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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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    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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    remembered principally for his biography and edition of the works of Ben Jonson in 11 volumes. This major scholarly project was published from 1925 onwards...
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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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  • 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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    2009. The grave of Ben Jonson is not in Poets' Corner, but is in the north aisle of the nave. It has the inscription "O Rare Ben Johnson" (perhaps the...
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    and Martin Best. He played Mosca in Peter Hall's 1977 production of Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Royal National Theatre. In 1981 he returned to Broadway...
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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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  • Anne of Denmark, Bulstrode became the subject of works by poets such as Ben Jonson who threatened her reputation with rumours of promiscuity. Other writers...
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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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    of the genius of Ben Jonson, 2) the preference of Dryden for comedy of wit and repartee and of Shadwell, the chief disciple of Jonson, for humors comedy...
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