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Jonson described his wife to William Drummond as "a shrew, yet honest". The identity of Jonson's wife is obscure, though she sometimes is identified as "Ann Lewis", the woman who married a Benjamin Jonson in 1594, at the church of St Magnus-the-Martyr, near London Bridge.
Nov 18, 2021 · (Benjamin) Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 — c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet, best known for his satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614), as well as his lyrical poetry.
The gradual modern recovery of Jonson has built upon the monumental labours of his Oxford editors, C. H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson (Ben Jonson, 11 vols., 1925–52), and has been aided by an ever-growing body of criticism and scholarship.
Sep 9, 2023 · On 22 September 1598, Elizabethan actor Gabriel Spencer settled his creative differences with playwright Ben Jonson with a duel.
Benjamin Jonson (1572 – 1637) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy and “…is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I” (qtd. in “Ben Jonson”).
Jul 20, 2020 · Until the last few decades, attention to Ben Jonson’s (1572-1637) poetry focused largely on the famous songs and the moving epitaphs on children. Such choices were not ill-advised, but they are unrepresentative.
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Apr 11, 2012 · Ben Jonson 1572-1637) was an early modern playwright whose popularity rivaled that of Shakespeare or Marlowe. He spent multiple stints in prison, wrote masques in which the Queen of England and Prince of Wales performed, and was crowned England's first poet laureate.
