Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 6 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence on English poetry...

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...

works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous...

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...

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...

1983), Australian cyclist Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English poet and dramatist Ben Johnson (actor) (1918–1996), American actor Ben Johnson (artist) (born 1946)...

the style of the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. The term English Renaissance theatre encompasses the period between 1562—following...

first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which...

surname include: Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor Björn Jonson (born 1940), Swedish professor Fredric Jonson (born 1987)...

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...

drama continued, with writers such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon contributing to a flourishing literary culture. James...

pickleball player Ben Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people Ben Jonson (1572–1637), English poet Ben Kane (born 1970), English novelist Ben Kasica, American...

the lyrics of which are the poem "To Celia" by the English playwright Ben Jonson, first published in 1616. Drink to me only with thine eyes,      And I...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

greatest figures of English Renaissance theatre, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Robert Allot became a "freeman" of the Stationers Company (a full member...

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...

several dozen masques, most by royal command and many in collaboration with Ben Jonson. Beyond that he was born in Smithfield, London, as the son of clothworker...

Bawd, squire, imposter, many persons more — Ben Jonson, The Alchemist (1610). Emerging from Ben Jonson's late-Elizabethan comedies of humours (1598–1599)...

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...

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...

September 2012. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/127459/Ben Jonson. "Ben Jonson." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic...

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...

and Jacobean playwrights, including Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Many elements of The Spanish Tragedy, such as the play-within-a-play...

Farquhar • John Ford • Robert Greene • Thomas Heywood • Ben Jonson I • Ben Jonson II • Ben Jonson III • Christopher Marlowe • Philip Massinger I • Philip...

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...

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...